The People v. Johnson

An information was filed by the State’s attorney of Cook county in the municipal court of Chicago on June 25, 1931, charging the plaintiff in error (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) with a violation on the first day of September, 1929, of the Illinois Securities act. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty. A trial by jury was waived and the cause tried before the court. Defendant was found guilty. Motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled and he was sentenced by the judgment of the municipal court to imprisonment for three months in the Cook county jail and…