The PEOPLE v. Lawrence

Defendant, William Lawrence, was tried by a jury in the criminal court of Cook County and found guilty of the crimes of armed robbery and assault with intent to murder. Judgments were entered on the verdicts, sentences to the penitentiary were imposed, and defendant now prosecutes this writ of error for review contending that the trial court erred in denying his petition for a change of venue, as a consequence of which all subsequent orders were void.

The undisputed facts show that the cases against defendant were assigned to one of the judges of the criminal court, on April 1, 1958, upon…