PEOPLE v. STINGLEY

No. 32574.

414 Ill. 398 (1953)

111 N.E.2d 548

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. ELIJAH STINGLEY, Plaintiff in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 23, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ELIJAH STINGLEY, pro se.

IVAN A. ELLIOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, and JOHN GUTKNECHT, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (JOHN T. GALLAGHER, RUDOLPH L. JANEGA, and ARTHUR F. MANNING, all of Chicago, of counsel,) for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE CRAMPTON delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff in error, Elijah Stingley, brings a writ of error to the criminal court of Cook County, where a bench trial was had without the intervention of a jury, a jury having been waived, to review the legality of two consecutive sentences for terms of ten to fourteen years each in the Illinois State Penitentiary entered upon two separate counts of the same indictment, which...

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