Young v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. At the June term, 1905, the grand jury of Cook county returned into the criminal court of said county an indictment against Louis Young, Edward C. Keefe, and one McCormick, charging them 'with unlawfully and feloniously obtaining from Patrick H. Greear, on the 15th day of June, 1905, the sum of $1200 in cash by means of the confidence game.
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Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. At the June term, 1905, the grand jury of Cook county returned into the criminal court of said county an indictment against Louis Young, Edward C. Keefe, and one McCormick, charging them 'with unlawfully and feloniously obtaining from Patrick H. Greear, on the 15th day of June, 1905, the sum of $1200 in cash by means of the confidence game. Louis Young and Edward C. Keefe were arrested, McCormick not being found, and upon a trial Young and Keefe were found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
The first contention of plaintiffs in error is that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain a conviction. Greear admits that he formed a conspiracy with Keefe and McCormick to defraud the book-makers in Chicago, and Young is a confessed gambler. The jury saw and heard them and the witnesses produced by them testify, and while the direct evidence that Young was connected with McCormick and Keefe is very meagre, in view of all the circumstances proven on the trial, if no error of law had been committed during the trial we would not reverse the case on the ground that the evidence was not…
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