The People v. Simcox

Appellants were convicted in the circuit court of Saline county of violating section 224a of the Criminal Code. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, chap. 38, par. 471.) The question comes here for direct review since the validity of that act is questioned.

Separate complaints were filed before a justice of the peace in said county, charging that appellant Bevins on December 3, 1940, did “unlawfully present and in a public place exhibit a certain sketch and publication,” describing it, contrary to' the provisions of that statute. The same charge was made against defendants A. R. and Nancy Simcox, except as…