People v. O'Connor

Mr. Presiding Justice Robson

delivered the opinion of the court.

Robert O’Connor, the plaintiff in error, was convicted by the municipal court of Chicago of a violation of the Uniform Narcotics Drug Act, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 38, par. 192.2 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 88.23(2)], as amended, for unlawfully having in his possession heroin, a certain habit-forming drug. This was his first offense. He was sentenced to serve a term of two years in the county jail.

He appealed by writ of error to the Supreme Court. It was transferred to this court because there was nothing in the common-law record…