The People v. Filipak

Joseph Filipak and James Wojcik were indicted at the June, 1925, term of the criminal court of Cook county for robbery while armed with a pistol. A jury found them guilty. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled and they were sentenced to the penitentiary. They prosecute this writ of error for a review of the record.

At about 2 A. M. on May 30, 1925, Amos J. Brolet, a chauffeur for the Yellow Cab Company, was driving one of its taxicabs in the vicinity of Forty-second place and Kedzie avenue, in the city of Chicago. Two men hailed him, and one of them asked him to…