The People v. Elias

The construction of section 6 of article 2 of the constitution being involved, this writ of error is sued out of this court to review the judgment of the circuit court of DuPage county finding plaintiff in error guilty of possessing and selling intoxicating liquors contrary to the provisions of the Prohibition act and sentencing him to serve six months in the county jail and to pay a fine of $1000.

The eighth count of the indictment charges that Anton Elias did “unlawfully keep for sale intoxicating liquor while the said county of DuPage was then and there prohibition territory, said keeping…