Baschleben v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error prosecuted out of this court for the purpose of reviewing a judgment of conviction, entered by the criminal court of Cook county against plaintiff in error for embezzling certain funds of Plattdeutsche Glide Fritz Reuter No. 4, an unincorporated benevolent association of which the plaintiff in error was a member.
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Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error prosecuted out of this court for the purpose of reviewing a judgment of conviction, entered by the criminal court of Cook county against plaintiff in error for embezzling certain funds of Plattdeutsche Glide Fritz Reuter No. 4, an unincorporated benevolent association of which the plaintiff in error was a member. The indictment was found by the grand jury, and returned into court on April 30, 1898. It contains eight counts. Some of these counts are under section' 75 of…
1Per curiam
Section 3 of division 4 of the Criminal Code is as follows: “All indictments for other felonies” (except murder or manslaughter, arson or forgery) “must be found within three years next after the commission of the crime, except as otherwise provided by law.” (1 Starr & Cur. Ann. Stat. — 2d ed. — p. 1371). The present indictment was found on April 30, 1898, and, therefore, the three years began to run on April 30, 1895. Some of the evidence tends to show that the money, which plaintiff in error is charged with having embezzled, was converted to his own use before 1895, and some of the…
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