Legal Opinion

People v. Clink

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided January 26, 1920No. Gen. No. 25,379PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1919.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon information it was charged that on January 3, 1919, the defendant, Clink, ‘ with a certain instrument commonly called an automobile, said automobile being a dangerous and deadly weapon,” made an assault upon John Herbeck, contrary to the statute, etc. Upon trial by the court he was adjudged guilty and fined $1,000. By this writ of error he' seeks the reversal of the judgment.

It is contended that an automobile is not a deadly weapon within the meaning of the Statute on Assault, sec. 25, ch. 38 (J. & A. ft 3507). It is…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Aiken v. Holyoke Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
  2. People v. AdamsIllinois Supreme Court · 1919
  3. People v. FalkovitchIllinois Supreme Court · 1917
  4. Acers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  5. Dunaway v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1884

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. People v. GoolsbyMichigan Supreme Court · 1938
  2. Williamson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1926
  3. Williamson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1926
  4. Beck v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1941
  5. State v. BalderramaArizona Supreme Court · 1964

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