Weare Commission Co. v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Bureau county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding.
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Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Bureau county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment against the plaintiff in error, returned on January 9, 1903, into the circuit court of Bureau county by the grand jury of that county, charging that the plaintiff in error, a corporation, on the 20th day of September, 1901, “and on divers other dates and times between that day and the finding of this indictment, in the city of Princeton, in the said county of Bureau and State aforesaid, did…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The questions of- law, presented by this record, are substantially the same questions, which were decided by this court in the case of Soby v. People, 134 Ill. 66. But it is stated by the learned counsel for the plaintiff in error, that the object in presenting the present case to this court is to bring the construction of the act of 1887 again to the attention of the court “in the hope that the decision in the Soby case may be more accurately confined to its facts,, and a further construction of the statute may be had, which, while not impairing at all its efficacy to accomplish the purposes…
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