People v. Tamborski

Richard Tamborski was indicted for the crime of murder in the criminal court of Cook County. He was tried by jury, found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of seventeen years. To review the judgment of conviction, he prosecutes the present writ of error.

The only error assigned is that the trial court erred in failing to discharge defendant for want of prosecution pursuant to section 18 of division XIII of the Criminal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 38, par. 748,) which provides as follows: “Any person committed for a criminal or supposed criminal offense,…