The PEOPLE v. Sawyer

The defendants, Harold Sawyer and Sam Ehrenberg, were tried by jury in the circuit court of Cook County and found guilty of the crime of gambling. Sawyer was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than one year and one day and Ehrenberg was placed on probation for a period of five years. Each defendant has appealed.

The defendants first claim is that a sworn complaint for a search warrant was insufficient because it did not refer to the room number of an apartment in a multi-unit building. The sworn complaint for the warrant requested its issuance to search…