The People v. Norwitt

Plaintiff in error, Valdemar Norwitt, was, on September 1, 1938, convicted, on a plea of not guilty and trial before the criminal court of Cook county without a jury, of the crime of indecent liberties with a child. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for an indeterminate term of one to twenty years. He prosecutes this writ of error .pro se. No bill of exceptions has been filed and we have before us for review only the common-law record. He has filed what purports to be a transcript of the evidence but which was not presented to or signed by the trial court. Such cannot be…