The People v. Johnson

Mr. Chirr Justice Dunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

At the January term, 1925, of the circuit court of Ogle county Floyd Johnson was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of receiving for his own gain a Ford sedan knowing it to have been stolen. This writ of error has been sued out to review the record on the grounds of the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, error in instructions given and refused, and other errors occurring on the trial.

Johnson was a young man twenty-six years old who lived at Rockford, where he was employed in a garage. He was engaged to' be…