Steele v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Wbit of Ebbob to the Recorder’s Court of Chicago; the Hon. Evebt "Van Buben, Judge, presiding. The plaintiff in error was indicted for forgery at the October Term, A. D. 1866, of the Recorder’s Court of Chicago. On being arraigned, he pleaded not guilty, and entered his motion for a continuance, which being overruled, exceptions were taken. . . The affidavit for a continuance was as follows : “ State of Illinois, Recorder's Court of the city of Chicago. “ J. R. Steele ads.
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Wbit of Ebbob to the Recorder’s Court of Chicago; the Hon. Evebt "Van Buben, Judge, presiding. The plaintiff in error was indicted for forgery at the October Term, A. D. 1866, of the Recorder’s Court of Chicago. On being arraigned, he pleaded not guilty, and entered his motion for a continuance, which being overruled, exceptions were taken. . . The affidavit for a continuance was as follows : “ State of Illinois, Recorder's Court of the city of Chicago. “ J. R. Steele ads. The People of the State of Illinois. “ City of Chicago, ) Cook County, \ “John R. Steele, being duly sworn, says he is…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Outre Justice Breese
delivered the opinion of the Court:
This was an indictment in the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago, at the October Term, 1866, against J. R. Steele, for attempting to pass, as genuine, a forged cheek, purporting to have been drawn at Chicago, on the 25th of September, 1866, by H. M. Thompson & Co., on the Merchants’ Savings, Loan and Trust company, and in favor of William E. Hudson or bearer, for §990.
Being duly arraigned for trial on the indictment, the prisoner pleaded not guilty and presented his affidavit for a continuance, on the ground of the absence of…
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