The People v. Chronister

Gorman W. Chronister, alias G. W. Wilson, was indicted in the circuit court of Clinton county for the crime of confidence game, and 'for uttering a false, forged and counterfeit check; was tried before a jury and found guilty of both charges and sentenced to the penitentiary. He prosecutes a writ of error to this court.

The proof upon the part of the People tended to show the plaintiff in error (hereinafter called defendant) came to the A. G. Rabus Grocery & Meat Market in Carlyle, Illinois, on July 30, 1940, and requested Evelyn Hardy, a clerk and also a daughter of the owner, to cash a check…