People ex rel. Hoyne v. Windes

Mr. Justicb Cartwright

delivered the opinion of the court:

The Attorney General, by leave granted, filed in this court a petition in the name of the People, on the relation of the State’s attorney of Cook county, for a writ of mandamus directing Thomas G. Windes, judge of the circuit court of Cook county, to expunge from the records of said court an order releasing and discharging C. W. Scott from the house of correction of the city of Chicago. The defendant demurred to the petition, and the cause has been argued and submitted for decision on the issue of law raised by the demurrer.

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