Jupitz v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Weft of Error to the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago ; the Hon. Evert Van Buren, Recorder, presiding. Charles Jupitz was indicted in the court below for receiving stolen property, knowing it to be such.
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Weft of Error to the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago ; the Hon. Evert Van Buren, Recorder, presiding. Charles Jupitz was indicted in the court below for receiving stolen property, knowing it to be such. The charge in the indictment was, that the defendant, “twelve brass couplings of the value of three dollars each, the personal goods and property of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, for the gain of him, the said Charles Jupitz, unlawfully and feloniously did have and receive, the said personal goods and property before then having been feloniously stolen, taken and carried away,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
Upon the first point made by the plaintiff in error, that of the mode adopted by the court to identify the property stolen, we can perceive nothing objectionable. The indictment was for having and receiving twelve brass couplings, knowing them to have been stolen. Proof, coming up to the allegation, is all that is necessary in any case. The witnesses all concur that the couplings stolen were more or less like the one produced in court. This was sufficient to prove the kind of article. Suppose the charge had been for having and receiving twelve iron wagon boxes, knowing them to be stolen, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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