Dorr v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Hervey H. Dorr and L. H. Sawyer were indicted for obtaining from Gustave Kitzeman, by means of the confidence game, a cashier’s check for $500. A second count charged the check was obtained by false pretenses. A nolle prosequi was entered by the State’s attorney as to said second count.
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Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Hervey H. Dorr and L. H. Sawyer were indicted for obtaining from Gustave Kitzeman, by means of the confidence game, a cashier’s check for $500. A second count charged the check was obtained by false pretenses. A nolle prosequi was entered by the State’s attorney as to said second count. A trial upon the first count resulted in a verdict of guilty, upon which, after overruling a motion for a new trial and a motion in arrest of judgment, the court pronounced judgment and sentenced the plaintiffs in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
Notwithstanding the labor imposed by setting out in the abstract a great portion of the testimony in full by questions and answers instead of “a complete abstract or abridgment” of the testimony, we have read it carefully from the alleged abstract, and having reached the conclusion that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction for the confidence game, it is unnecessary for us to discuss the numerous other errors assigned and argued in a brief of 227 pages on behalf of plaintiffs in error and a brief of 106 pages on behalf of defendant in error.
It is not contended that the business…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Maxwell v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
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