The PEOPLE v. Strader

Defendant was convicted of murder in a trial before the- court without a jury and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 50 years. We have issued a writ of error, and the cause is before'us for review.

On this writ of error, the defendant makes several contentions, among them that the court erred in receiving in evidence a written confession without a preliminary hearing as to its voluntariness and made other allegedly prejudicial errors in the admission and exclusion of evidence, that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction, and that défendant was deprived of a fair…