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THE PEOPLE v. BRAGG

No. 35128.

16 Ill.2d 336 (1959)

157 N.E.2d 57

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. OSCAR BRAGG, Plaintiff in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 20, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

THOMAS P. SULLIVAN, of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.

LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, and BENJAMIN S. ADAMOWSKI, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (FRED G. LEACH, and FRANCIS X. RILEY, of counsel,) for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1940 the defendant, Oscar Bragg, was tried for murder before a jury which found him guilty and fixed his sentence at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of 199 years. He filed a post-conviction petition in 1949 in which he charged that his appointed counsel was incompetent, that negroes were systematically excluded from the jury before which he was tried, and that after...

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