The People v. Johnson

The plaintiff in error was convicted of burglary in the criminal court of Cook county on February 9, 1937. At the hearing, he waived trial by jury and the court found that he had before been convicted of grand larceny. The court, therefore, sentenced the plaintiff in error to life imprisonment because he was an habitual criminal.

He has sued out a writ of error in this court asking that the case be reversed and remanded upon the sole ground that “the indictment and judgment upon which the trial court found the defendant guilty of being heretofore convicted of Grand Larceny, was not an…