Lynam v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Indictment.—Exposure of child. Error to the Circuit Court of Will County; the Hon. Dorranoe Dibell, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Lacey
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The plaintiff in error was indicted under section 53, chapter 38, of the criminal code of the statute, under the head “ Cruelty to Children and Others.” The section provides that “ any person who shall willfully unnecessarily expose to the inclemency of the weather, or shall in any other manner injure the health or limb of any child, apprentice or other person under his legal control, shall be fined not exceeding $500, or imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years.”
The indictment charges plaintiff in error with…
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