Legal Opinion

Greene v. People

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 16, 1899PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin

Plaintiff in error was found guilty of the crime of perjury in the criminal court of Cook county, at its August term, 1898, and after overruling the motion for new trial and in arrest of judgment the court sentenced him to the penitentiary. To reverse that judgment this writ of error has been sued out.

The accusation is, that in a certain foreclosure proceeding, the evidence being taken before a master in chancery, it became a material inquiry • whether or not “the defendant, in the month of October, 1897, tendered to VanVlissingen, trustee, a certain sum of money remaining due upon an…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People v. . HayesNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
  2. Morrell v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1863
  3. Pollard v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
  4. Clay v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1877

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Jordan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1932
  2. Markey v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1904
  3. People Ex Rel. Chicago Bar Ass'n v. FeinbergIllinois Supreme Court · 1932
  4. Hereford v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1902
  5. Loudermilk v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1913

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