People v. Bodkin

Plaintiffs in error, Joseph Bodkin and Frank Brissa, were indicted in Cook county for the crime of robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon, to-wit, a revolver. The jury brought in a verdict that plaintiffs in error were guilty of robbery but found from the evidence that at the time of the commission of the robbery they were not armed with a dangerous weapon. On this verdict they were sentenced by the criminal court of Cook county to the penitentiary under an indeterminate sentence and judgment was entered accordingly. From that judgment this writ of error has been prosecuted.

The evidence…