Cowen v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
At the July term, 1852, of the Recorder’s Court for the city of Chicago, R. S. Wilson, presiding, Thomas Cowen and Patrick Cowen were indicted, tried, and convicted, for devising and intending to cheat and defraud one Ransom Wilkinson of certain moneys, goods, and choses in action, by representing to him that a certain watch which they proposed to sell, and did sell to him, was a gold watch, of the value of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, of the best California gold,…
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At the July term, 1852, of the Recorder’s Court for the city of Chicago, R. S. Wilson, presiding, Thomas Cowen and Patrick Cowen were indicted, tried, and convicted, for devising and intending to cheat and defraud one Ransom Wilkinson of certain moneys, goods, and choses in action, by representing to him that a certain watch which they proposed to sell, and did sell to him, was a gold watch, of the value of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, of the best California gold, &c., obtaining from Wilkinson fifty dollars therefor, when the said watch was galvanized, and not worth more than five…
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
We do not think it necessary to go into an examination in detail of the objections raised by the defendants’ counsel to the admissibility of evidence which was introduced on the part of the prosecution. We have examined it carefully, and think the objections were properly overruled. The objection to the competency of the jurors is untenable. The law gave the recorder’s court jurisdiction of the offence; and the same law said that the case should be tried by tax payers of the city into whose treasury the fine is directed to be paid ; so that the law did expressly provide, that the…
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