Glover v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. W. G. Cochran, Judge, presiding. The grand jury, at the September term of the circuit court of Moultrie county, returned an indictment against Frank Glover, consisting of three counts.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. W. G. Cochran, Judge, presiding. The grand jury, at the September term of the circuit court of Moultrie county, returned an indictment against Frank Glover, consisting of three counts. The first count charged robbery from the person of one Joseph Wiley by violence, the second by intimidation, and the third a violation of section 93a of the Criminal Code, which reads as follows: “Whoever, either verbally or by written or printed communication, maliciously and willfully threatens to * * * kill or murder another person, * * * with…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hand
It is assigned as error that the court erred in overruling a motion to quash the third count of the indictment and in arrest of judgment. The count was substantially in the language of the statute creating the offense, and was sufficient. . Section 6 of division 11 of the Criminal Code (1 Starr & Cur. Stat.—2d ed.—p. 1389,) provides: “Every indictment of accusation of the grand jury shall be deemed sufficiently technical and correct which states the offense in the terms and language of the statutes creating the offense, or so plainly that the nature of the offense may be easily understood by…
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