People v. McGovern

Plaintiff in error, Frank McGovern, was found guilty by a jury at the April term, 1922, of the criminal court of Cook county, of the crime of receiving stolen property. This writ of error has been sued out to reverse the judgment entered on such verdict.

It appears from the record that Emmett Lowe, a prisoner in the State penitentiary of Missouri, testified for the State in this case that he was sent to that prison for stealing the car in question; that on August 10, 1920, he met at the Federal Hotel, in Kansas City, one Glade, who had a Hudson automobile with Missouri license plates on it;…