Blemer v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Johh G. Rogers, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against the plaintiff in error.
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Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Johh G. Rogers, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against the plaintiff in error. The first count charged that the defendant, “on, etc., at, etc., by a certain game or device by the use of cards, did unlawfully, feloniously and fraudulently obtain of James Armstfbng thirty four-dollar bank bills, current money of the Dominion of Canada, of value of four dollars each, thirty four-dollar bank notes, current money of Canada, of value of four dollars each, thirty four-dollar bank notes of the Merchants’ Bank of Canada, valued at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
Appellant and one Lee having been indicted for feloniously and fraudulently obtaining from James Armstrong, by the • game of “three card monte,” certain bank bills, etc., were, on the 16th of September, 1874, placed on trial therefor, before •a jury, in the criminal court of Cook county; and after the . trial had progressed some time, but before the case was finally submitted to the jury, the State’s attorney entered a nolle prosequi. Thereupon, on motion of the State’s attorney, the ' defendants, severally, entered into recognizance in open court, with sureties, in $2000, for their…
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