Cross v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. Plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted of the crime of forgery at the October term, 1900, of the circuit court of DuPage county. The evidence was sufficient to establish these facts: That Cross, the plaintiff in error, was in December, 1899, in the employ of a medical concern located in Chicago, called the “Dr. Green Medical Dispensary,” of which.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. Plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted of the crime of forgery at the October term, 1900, of the circuit court of DuPage county. The evidence was sufficient to establish these facts: That Cross, the plaintiff in error, was in December, 1899, in the employ of a medical concern located in Chicago, called the “Dr. Green Medical Dispensary,” of which. O. H. Marquardt was secretary and treasurer; that during that month he called on one L. .E. Kef chum,-a.farmer, at his home in DuPage county,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The note for the forgery of which (by altering it from v one for $60 to one for $360) the defendant below was indicted was not produced on the trial, bnt a copy was admitted in evidence over the objection of the defendant, and this decision of the court is the principal error assigned and relied on to reverse the judgment. The chief objection was and is, that the indictment did not count on the forgery of a lost instrument, or on one in the hands of the defendant, or out of the power of the People to produce, but that it counted on the forgery of an instrument, using the language of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Bolen v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
- Andrews v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
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- Duffin v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
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