People v. De Mas
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John R. Newcomer, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McSurely
The plaintiff in error was arrested upon a capias issued upon an information sworn to by Lena Burkett, charging him with the crime of pandering. A jury trial was waived and trial had by the court, which found De Mas guilty, and he was sentenced.
It is claimed that the information is-insufficient in that (1) it nowhere alleges that Lena Burkett is a “female person(2) it is not alleged that she was induced to remain therein “as such inmate(3) the information begins by saying that Lena Burkett comes “in his own proper person.”
The first two objections go merely to the form of the information and…
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