People ex rel. Hoyne v. Newcomer

In pursuance of leave granted on 'his motion, Maclay Hoyne, State’s attorney of Cook county, filed his petition in the name of the People for a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the respondent John R. Newcomer, judge of the municipal court of Chicago, to enter of record a nolle prosequi to an information pending in said court on the complaint of John McMahon against Herbert Noon for a violation of section 259 of division 1 of the Criminal Code, which reads as follows: “Whoever keeps open any tippling house, or place where liquor is sold or given away, upon the first day of the week,…