The People v. Marmon

delivered the- opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs in error Marmon, Weiss and Nick Charles were found guilty of the confidence game by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county. Charles was placed on probation and Marmon and Weiss bring the cause here. The indictment charged that the defendants fraudulently and feloniously obtained from Clarence E. Willms and Mildred B. Willms the sum of $550 by means and by use of the confidence game.

Plaintiff in error Marmon, with three other persons, on February 21, 1941, entered into an agreement .with one E. J. Murphy, as agent for certain trust…