Spears v. People

This is an indictment, returned at the April term of the criminal court of Cook county by the grand jury of that county against the plaintiff in error for forgery. The trial, which took place at the July term, 1905, of said court, resulted in a verdict, finding the plaintiff in error guilty, as charged in the indictment; and after motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled, judgment was rendered on the verdict in the usual form, sentencing the plaintiff in error to the penitentiary at Joliet for the crime of forgery. Motion was entered by plaintiff in error to vacate the…