People v. Greene

Mr. Chiep Justice Duncan

delivered the opinion of the court:

An information was filed against plaintiff in error, Morton Greene, in the municipal court of Chicago, charging that on April 1, 1924, in the city of Chicago, he received, hired, employed, used and exhibited as singers and dancers, Ruth Weiss, Sylvia Weiss and Ethel Page, minors under the age of fourteen years, in violation of section 42a of the Criminal Code. (Hurd’s Stat. 1921, p. 1060.) Upon a trial before the court without a jury the plaintiff in error was found guilty of unlawfully exhibiting children under the age of fourteen…