Cross v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Indictment, for selling liquors. Error to the County Court of Iroquois County; the Hon. Charles W, Raymond, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1896.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion per Curiam.
This was an indictment for selling liquor without a license. Defendant was convicted upon four counts, fined $200 and.sentenced to eighty days confinement in the county jail.
There was a motion in arrest of judgment, on the ground the indictment was not signed by the state’s attorney. It is not claimed that the statute requires the indictment to be signed by the state’s attorney, but it is, no doubt, the general practice in this State that it should be so signed. In 1 Bish. on Crim. Proc., Sec. 702, it is said, at common law the validity of the indictment comes wholly from…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. StoneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
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