Keyes v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Indictment, for selling mortgaged property. Error to the Criminal Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Adams
The contentions of counsel for plaintiff are as follows :
1. That the indictment is bad in not averring that the chattel mortgage was a valid lien.
2. There is a variance between the description in the indictment of the property averred to have been purchased by the prosecuting witness, Mrs. Moran, and the proof.
3. Mo payee of the notes, payment of which the mortgage purports to secure, is mentioned in the mortgage.
4. The mortgage was not valid as to Keyes or any person subsequént to Simon.
5. The falsity of the alleged representation of the receipts of the restaurant business was not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Thomas v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1885
- State v. HillSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1881