Gillespie v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the County Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. M. W. Thompson, Judge, presiding. This is a criminal action, based upon an information filed in the county court of Vermilion county by the State’s attorney of that county charging the plaintiff in error, Charles Gillespie, with violating section 32 of chapter 48, entitled “Employment.”
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Writ of Error to the County Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. M. W. Thompson, Judge, presiding. This is a criminal action, based upon an information filed in the county court of Vermilion county by the State’s attorney of that county charging the plaintiff in error, Charles Gillespie, with violating section 32 of chapter 48, entitled “Employment.” (Hurd’s Stat. 1899). Said section 32 is: “An act to protect employees and guarantee their right to belong to labor organizations,” approved June 17, 1893, in force July 1, 1893, and is as follows: “That it shall be unlawful for any individual or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The question, raised by the motion to quash the information, by the motion to exclude the evidence and discharge the plaintiff in error, by the refusal of instructions asked by the plaintiff in error, and by the overruling of the motion in arrest of judgment, is the constitutionality of the statute of June 17, 1893, set forth in full in the statement preceding this opinion. The provisions of the constitution of this State, which the act in question is said to contravene, are, first: Section 1 of article 2 of the Bill of Bights, which provides that “all men are7 by nature free and independent,…
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