The People v. Clavey

On October 31, 1930, the plaintiff in error (hereinafter referred to as the defendant,) was jointly indicted with one Diettrich, in the criminal court of Cook county, on the charge that he “unlawfully, feloniously, willfully and maliciously did burn a certain church, to-wit, a certain frame building situated at and commonly known as No. 338 East Washington avenue, in the village of Glencoe, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois aforesaid, then and there the property of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church Society, a corporation, contrary to the statute,” etc. The indictment was…