Shirk v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Stephenson county; the Hon. William Brown, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
At the December term, 1886, of the circuit court of Stephenson county, Daniel F. Shirk was tried and convicted of the crime of uttering and publishing an alleged fictitious instrument in writing, for the payment of money, his punishment being fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary. By the present writ of error we are asked to review that conviction.
The indictment is founded on the 107th section of the Criminal Code, which, so far as it is supposed to have any application to this case, is as follows: “Whoever shall make, pass, utter or publish, with an intention to defraud any…
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