Summary
In Snively, where the record on appeal did not disclose entry of a plea by either defendant before being placed on trial, the appellate court of Illinois reversed the conviction although the defendants had demanded a jury trial and announced themselves ready.
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Gen. No. 46,931. (Abstract of Decision.)
October 17, 1956. Released for publication November 28, 1956.
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. JOSEPH A. POPE, Judge, presiding. Reversed and remanded.
E.A. Simmons, for plaintiffs in error;
John Gutknecht, State's Attorney, of Cook county, for defendant in error;
Charles D. Snewind, Francis X. Riley, and William Sylvester White, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel.
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