The People v. Allen

Abe Allen has sued out this writ of error to review the record of the Appellate Court for the First District in affirming his conviction in the criminal court of Cook county for violating the Motor Fuel Tax law. Laws of 1929, p. 625.

This cause was before this court in 352 Ill. 262, and was transferred to the Appellate Court because no fairly debatable constitutional question was presented. The indictment contained seventeen counts, but on the trial the last count was nollied. The first count charged that the defendant on March 1, 1930, and continuously thereafter during that month,…