People v. Pierce

James Pierce, plaintiff in error, was convicted in the municipal court of Chicago on an information filed under the provisions of the act of 1919 revising the law in relation to deadly weapons. (Laws of 1919, p. 431.) He was tried before the court, a jury having been waived, and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs and be imprisoned for four months in the house of correction.

The principal contention in this case is that the act under which the judgment was entered is invalid because in violation of section 13 of article 4 of our constitution. It was evidently upon the theory that this…