Bergstrasser v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Criminal prosecution for keeping slot machine. Error to the County Court of Adams county; the Hon. C. B. McCrory, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Ramsay
delivered the opinion of the court.
Henry Bergstrasser and John E. Dick were convicted in the County Court of Adams county upon an information charging them with unlawfully keeping a slot machine in their saloon in the city of Quincy, the same being a device upon the result of the action of which money was staked and hazarded. The court imposed a fine of $100 upon Bergstrasser and Dick and they sued out a writ of error.
Information against plaintiffs in error was filed in the County Court of Adams county by William B. Sheets as state’s attorney, on the eighth day of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Long v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
- Truitt v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
- State v. TurnbullSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1886
3Cited by4 opinions
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- People v. FerronAppellate Court of Illinois · 1931