Legal Opinion

People v. Halpin

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 21, 1916No. 10626PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Writ or Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. JRSSE A. Baldwin, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice; Dunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff in error was convicted of bribery in the criminal court of Cook county and has sued out a writ of error to reverse the judgment. The errors assigned and argued relate to the admission of evidence and the refusal of instructions.

The single count of the indictment, after setting out certain sections of an ordinance of the city of Chicago establishing the police department and providing for its organization, charged that the plaintiff in error was on January 7, 1913, a captain of police assigned to duty as chief of detectives of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Spies v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1887

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. State v. OrecchioSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1954
  2. The PEOPLE v. MillerIllinois Supreme Court · 1958
  3. Bartlett v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1948
  4. Tribune Co. v. ThompsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1930
  5. The People v. BainIllinois Supreme Court · 1935

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