Wistrand v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error, sued out of this court by Charles Wistrand, the plaintiff in error, to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county whereby plaintiff in error was adjudged guilty of the crime of rape and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years. The indictment consisted of three counts.
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Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error, sued out of this court by Charles Wistrand, the plaintiff in error, to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county whereby plaintiff in error was adjudged guilty of the crime of rape and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years. The indictment consisted of three counts. The first and third charged rape by force upon one Eva Goldstein. 'There was no evidence of the use of force to sustain these counts. The second count charged the commission of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
It is provided by section 88a of chapter 37, Hurd’s Revised Statutes of 1903, “that two or more of the judges of the criminal court of Cook county, may each hold a different branch of said court at the same time.” At the time of the trial of this cause, several branches of that court were in session. The jury commissioners had summoned six hundred jurors to appear at that term, and these jurors had been divided among the various branches of the court,, each juror being directed to report for service in a particular branch. Plaintiff in error was tried in the branch over which Hon. Richard W.…
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