Bergman v. People

This is a writ of error brought to reverse the judgment of the criminal court of Cook county adjudging the plaintiff in error to be guilty of larceny. The indictment contained a count charging larceny as at the common law, and other counts charging larceny as bailee under the statute. The facts proven were not sufficient to support a verdict that plaintiff in error was guilty of larceny as at the common law.

It is urged in behalf of plaintiff in error it did not appear from the proofs the property alleged to have been stolen was entrusted to him as bailee, but that he obtained the property as…