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PEOPLE v. GASSAWAY

Gen. No. 50,462.

65 Ill. App.2d 244 (1965)

212 N.E.2d 689

People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Robert E. Gassaway, Jr., Plaintiff in Error.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

December 9, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilbur C. Delp, Jr., of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.

William G. Clark, Attorney General of Springfield (Fred G. Leach and George Kenney, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), and Daniel P. Ward, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Matthew J. Moran, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE SULLIVAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The Criminal Court of Cook County, at a bench trial, found the defendant, Robert E. Gassaway, guilty of unlawful possession and sale of narcotics. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than fifteen years nor more than life.

On May 18, 1959, the defendant, then 22 years of age and a narcotics addict, was in the office of the United States Commissioner in Chicago, Illinois. At that time...

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