People v. Allen

Plaintiff in error, Maurice Allen, was tried before a jury in the criminal court of Cook County and convicted of the crime of receiving stolen property. He has sued out a writ of error to review the record of his conviction.

On the night of September 22, 1948, Arthur Philbrick parked his automobile on the street near his home at 806 Ashland Avenue, in the city of Chicago. At seven o’clock the next morning the car was gone from the place where it had been parked the previous night. The theft was immediately reported to the Marquette Police Station. The automobile was a new Mercury which had…