Cross v. People

The plaintiff in error was convicted, at the June term, 1861, of the Recorder’s Court of the city of Chicago, of forging a bank check, and sentenced to the penitentiary for six years.

He has brought the case here by writ of error, and alleges that the indictment is substantially and fatally defective, and no legal conviction could be founded on it.

The indictment is in the usual form, and alleges that the prisoner did, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in said city of Chicago, in the county and State aforesaid, unlawfully,…