The People v. Hart

Plaintiffs in error, Jess Hart and Steve George, were jointly indicted at the December, 1925, term of the circuit court of Saline county for the crime of burglary of and larceny from the store house of Hosea Parks. A jury trial resulted in a verdict of guilty as to each of them, and Hart was sentenced by the court to the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac and George to the Southern Illinois State Penitentiary at Chester for indeterminate terms. The record of their conviction is before this court for review upon writ of error.

Plaintiff in error George assigns as error the overruling of his…