People v. Snyder

Supplemental Opinion of the Court Upon Rehearing.

Rehearing being allowed, attorneys for defendant reargue that one cannot be charged with the crime of larceny as bailee by information where the value of the property is for $15 or less, but must be proceeded against by indictment, citing People v. Russell, 245 Ill. 268, where it was held that larceny, irrespective of the amount involved, was an infamous crime which could be prosecuted by indictment only. The opinion in this case was filed in 1910. In 1911 the legislature provided that, if the punishment for larceny was by imprisonment in the…