People v. Howard

The defendant, Antonia Howard, entered a plea of guilty to an information consisting of three counts charging her, along with Melvin E. Hogan, Allen L. Boldridge and James Howard, with the offenses of conspiracy, attempt and petty theft. The court sentenced the defendant on the third count of the information charging her with petty theft to the Illinois State Reformatory for Women at Dwight, Illinois, for a term of one year.

A writ of error was filed in the Supreme Court of Illinois to review this judgment in which the defendant contended among other things that the statute under which she was…