The People v. Sullivan

Percy B. Sullivan and W. K. Tuttle were jointly indicted in the circuit court of Vermilion county on the charge of obtaining the property and money of John Elliott by means of a confidence game. The charge was dismissed against Tuttle during the trial but Sullivan was found guilty and sentenced to an indeterminate term in the penitentiary. By this writ of error he brings the cause here for review.

Sullivan called at the farm home of Elliott on.April io, 1930, and discussed with him the sale of a generator for use in a carbide gas-lighting system. The two men were strangers to each other and…