People v. Baldwin

Mr. Presiding Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, F. Paul Baldwin, was convicted of violating the Illinois Securities Law, Ill. State Bar Stats. 1935, ch. 32, 254-296; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 13.01-13.54, on March 31, 1936, in a trial before the county court of Jackson county, trial by jury being waived, and sentenced to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia, Illinois, for a period of six months and was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000. The sentence provided that if the fine and costs be not paid at the expiration of the term of imprisonment,…