The People v. Nicholson

Plaintiff in error, Earl Nicholson, hereafter called defendant, on September 16, 1929, entered a plea of guilty to an indictment for murder, returned in the criminal court of Cook County. On September 23, 1929, the court entered the following sentence and judgment:

“Therefore, it is considered, ordered and adjudged by this Court that the said Defendant Earl Nicholson is guilty of the said crime of Murder * * * and that he be and is hereby sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the Penitentiary of this State, at Joliet, in the State of Illinois, * * * for the term of his natural life, * * *…