The People v. Freitag

Charles Freitag was prosecuted in the county court of Scott county on an information consisting of eight counts charging him with violations of the Prohibition act. The jury returned a verdict finding him guilty as charged in the first and second counts, and acquitted him of the charges made in the remaining counts. Upon the first count a fine of $300 was imposed and upon the second there was a sentence of six months to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia. Freitag prosecuted a writ of error from the Appellate Court for the Third District and that court affirmed the judgment. He has sued out…