Graham v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Perry county; the Hon. M. W. Schaefer, Judge, presiding. At the May term, 1898, of the Perry county circuit court the grand jury returned into open court an indictment against plaintiff in error containing two counts.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Perry county; the Hon. M. W. Schaefer, Judge, presiding. At the May term, 1898, of the Perry county circuit court the grand jury returned into open court an indictment against plaintiff in error containing two counts. The first count presents that “John Graham, alias Jim Wheeler, late of the county of Perry and State of Illinois, on the seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord 1896, at and in the county aforesaid, unlawfully and feloniously did attempt to obtain from John A. Bowlin his money by means and by use of the confidence game, contrary,”…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
This prosecution is based upon section 98 of the Criminal Code, which reads as follows: “Every person who shall obtain, or attempt to obtain, from any other person or persons, an;?- money or property, by means or by use of any false or bogus checks, or by any other means, instrument or device, commonly called the confidence game, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than ten years.”
The indictment was framed under section 99 of the Criminal Code which is as follows: “In every indictment under the preceding section, it shall be deemed and held a sufficient…
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