The People v. Guido

Salvatore Guido, the defendant, was found guilty of the unlawful sale of narcotic drugs after a bench trial in the criminal court of Cook County, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than ten nor more than twelve years. He prosecutes this writ of error for review contending that he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Evidence adduced by the prosecution, almost completely through the testimony of Garrette Wimpey, a Federal narcotics agent, established that just prior to 3 :oo P.M. on September 29, 1958, Wimpey and a fellow agent, Russell Olexa, drove to the…