People v. Wulff

Plaintiff in error, Henry Wulff, was charged by an indictment, returned by the grand jury of the criminal court of Cook county, with embezzlement of $82,000 of the funds of the city of Chicago. The jury found him guilty of embezzling the sum of $25,227.80. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled and plaintiff in error was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. This writ of error is prosecuted to review that judgment.

Plaintiff in error was a clerk in the office of the city collector and performed his duties in a screened inclosure or cage numbered 34. During…