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PEOPLE v. WAKAT

No. 32829.

415 Ill. 610 (1953)

114 N.E.2d 706

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff in Error, v. LESLIE GEORGE WAKAT, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 24, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, and JOHN GUTKNECHT, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (JOHN T. GALLAGHER, ROBERT McDONNELL, and WILLIAM J. McGAH, JR., all of Chicago, of counsel,) for the People.

CHARLES SHANNER, and CALVIN SAWYIER, both of Chicago, for defendant in error.

Judgment affirmed.

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

After a hearing under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, the criminal court of Cook County set aside a judgment convicting Leslie George Wakat of burglary and sentencing him to the penitentiary, and granted him a new trial. By this writ of error, the People seek to review the judgment entered in the post-conviction proceeding.

Wakat was convicted after a jury trial and...

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