The PEOPLE v. Barney

Defendant, Frank Barney, brings this writ of error to review the judgment of conviction rendered against him in the criminal court of Cook County for the unlawful sale of narcotic drugs. Upon the denial of his motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment, the defendant was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than two years and not more than four years.

It appears from a review of the record that police officer Cooperman, of the narcotics section of the Chicago police department was sitting in an automobile at Thirty-fifth and Giles in that city, on March 25, 1955, with one…