Vezain v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Madison E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
This was an indictment for malicious mischief, on the trial of which the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine. He has brought the record here, and alleges for error, that the name of a prosecutor was not indorsed on the indictment, as required by the statute. This objection should have been made before trial, by a motion to quash. It is now too late. Crim. Code. § 163.
It also appears by the record that four of the jurors were impaneled and sworn before the defendant had pleaded — that he was then called on for a plea but stood mute, whereupon the court directed the plea of…
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