People v. Gentry

JUDGE CARROLL

delivered the opinion of the court.

An information filed in the County Court of Mason county charged the defendant with being a vagabond.

The defendant filed a motion to quash the same on the ground that the county court lacks jurisdiction over vagrancy cases; that Par. 579, Chap. 38, Revised Statutes of Illinois, 1955, specifies that such cases shall be heard by a justice of the peace or a police magistrate, and, therefore, jurisdiction in such cases is limited to justices of the peace, police magistrates or the circuit court, which has original jurisdiction in all criminal cases.

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