The People v. Michaels

Plaintiff in error, James Michaels, was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, in the circuit court of Randolph county, for the crime of robbery when armed with a deadly weapon. The record of the cause is now before this court upon writ of error.

About midnight of October 10, 1925, two men entered the freight office of the Illinois Central Railroad Company at East St. Louis, intimidated the employees with a show of revolvers, forcibly opened the safe and escaped with $2875.15. Between 1 :oo and 2 roo A. M. of the same night plaintiff in error was arrested at his home in…