The People v. Sheldon

Plaintiffs in error, Ralph Sheldon, Charles Gordon and William Fox, have severally sued out of this court writs of error to review three judgments of the municipal court of Chicago against them, respectively, and the three cases have been consolidated by order of this court.

On September 4, 1925, there was, upon leave granted, filed in the municipal court of the city of Chicago an information charging that “Ralph Sheldon on the third day of September, 1925, did then and there knowingly and unlawfully have in his possession on a seat in a certain automobile a certain deadly weapon, to-wit, a…