American Surety Co. v. Pryor

This case having been submitted under Supreme Court rule 46, the opinion of the court was prepared by

Mr. Justice SOMERVILLE;

The general rule has been declared, based upon considerations of public policy and supported by many authorities, that, where a person gives information to the state’s prosecuting officer charged by law with the duty of enforcing the criminal law, or the investigation and prosecution of probably committed crime, and that information tends to connect another with the commission of crime or the violation of the criminal law, and the informant states all the material facts…