PEOPLE v. MEIER

No. 33071.

3 Ill.2d 29 (1954)

119 N.E.2d 792

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. JOHN L. MEIER, Plaintiff in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOHN L. MEIER, pro se.

LATHAM CASTLE, 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. JUSTICE MAXWELL delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff in error, John L. Meier, was found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Cook County of the crime of burglary and was sentenced under the Habitual Criminal Act to life imprisonment. He comes here by writ of error on the common-law record alone, without a bill of exceptions.

The sufficiency of the verdict to sustain a sentence under the Habitual Criminal Act (Ill...

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