Lipsey v. People

The grand jury, on the 24th day of January, 1906, returned into the criminal court of Cook county an indictment charging Ralph Lipsey, the plaintiff in error, with the offense of buying, receiving and aiding in concealing stolen property, knowing the same to be stolen, in manner following, that is to say: “One Ralph Lipsey, late of, etc., on the second day of September, 1905, in the county of Cook, etc., feloniously, unlawfully and unjustly, for his own gain and to prevent the owner from again possessing its property, did buy, receive and aid in concealing two thousand light sockets, of the…