PEOPLE v. KOSTAKEN

Gen. No. 47,219.

16 Ill. App.2d 395 (1958)

148 N.E.2d 615

People of State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. John Kostaken, Plaintiff in Error.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

Released for publication April 2, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Bellows and Jason Ernest Bellows, both of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.

Latham Castle, Attorney General, of Springfield (Benjamin S. Adamowski, State's Attorney, Fred G. Leach, Assistant Attorney General, John T. Gallagher, Rudolph L. Janega, and William L. Carlin, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel) for defendant in error.


PRESIDING JUSTICE KILEY delivered the opinion of the court.

A writ of error was sued out of this court to review an order of the Criminal Court of Cook county revoking the probation of Kostaken and sentencing him to the penitentiary.

On January 27, 1950, Kostaken pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with the crime of armed robbery. The same day he was admitted to probation for a period of five years. Subsequently, a warrant for violation of probation...

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