Hronek v. People

The plaintiff in error, John Hronek, was indicted, with Frank Chapek, Frank Chleboun and Rudolph Sevic, for violation of an act of the legislature of this State, entitled “An act to regulate the manufacture, transportation, use and sale of explosives, and to punish an improper use of the same, ” approved June 16,1887, and in force July 1,1887. The first count charged the defendants with unlawfully making dynamite, with the unlawful intention of destroying the lives of certain persons therein named, and in the five remaining counts the defendants were charged successively in such several…