People v. Johnson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph S. LaBuy, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1921.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley
delivered the opinion of the court.
On December 22, 1920, an information, signed and sworn to by Oscar Forsland, was filed in the municipal court of Chicago, in which it was stated that Tom Johnson, on the 20th day of December, A. D. 1920, at the City of Chicago, “did unlawfully steal, take and carry away from the person of the said Oscar Forsland one bill fold and contents of the value of five dollars, the personal goods and property of Oscar Forsland,” contrary to the statute, etc. On the same day (December 22) Johnson, being in court, elected to waive a trial by…
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