Chezem v. State

Clarence Chezem was prosecuted in the district court of Adams county, under section 113a of the Criminal Code, for the crime of larceny'from the person of one Asa R. Oliphant. Upon the trial a verdict of guilty was returned, whereupon the accused filed a motion in arrest of judgment on the ground that the information under which the conviction was had did not state facts suffi.cient to constitute a crime, which motion was overruled, as was likewise his motion for a new trial, and the defendant was -sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of one year, and to pay the costs of…