Welsh v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
The defendants were indicted for larceny, tried and convicted, at September term, 1855, before R. S. Wilson, in the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago. They were sentenced to three years’ confinement in the penitentiary. The accused, were practising upon Hall, what is known as the ball and safe game, and borrowed of him the money, to wager. Hall was the principal witness on the trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
The question now again presented, of the right of the court before which this conviction took place, to try the prisoners, was carefully considered and decided in the case of Ex parte Welsh, ante, 161, and we do not think it necessary again to discuss the subject.
Where, as in this case, the alleged larceny is perpetrated by obtaining the possession of the goods by the voluntary act of the owner, under the influence of false pretences and fraud, when the cases are carefully examined and well understood, there is no real difficulty in deducing the correct rule, by which to determine,…
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