City of Chicago v. Sayer

The defendants, Ray Sayer and Theodore Thomson, each prosecuted two direct appeals to the Supreme Court from four- separate but identical orders entered in four proceedings in the municipal court of Chicago. Two of the orders were entered upon quasi-criminal complaints of the City of Chicago against each of the defendants charging them with unlawfully keeping, owning, operating and using or causing to be used in a certain building, slot machines, in violation of section 191-5 of the Municipal Code of Chicago, and the other two upon an information filed by the people against each of the…