The People v. Burke

The plaintiff in error, Albert Burke, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county on an indictment charging him with stealing six dollars, the money of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, on October 7, 1922, and with having been previously convicted of larceny. The jury by their verdict found him guilty and that he had been previously convicted of petit larceny in the municipal court of Chicago. He was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary and has sued out a writ of error to reverse the judgment.

A former judgment was reversed because the evidence failed to sustain either of the…