The People v. Tyson

Plaintiff in error appearing pro se and presenting the common-law record of his conviction in the criminal court of Cook county for the offense of crime against nature, complains that his sentence is illegal and unconstitutional and deprives him of due process of law. He was sentenced in October, 1944, for a term of not less than nine years nor more than ten years. Punishment for the crime of which he stands convicted, as fixed by the statute, was from one year to ten years.

Plaintiff in error contends that in sentencing him to a minimum of nine years and maximum of ten years the court erred,…