Schneider v. People

Chife Justice Campbell

delivered, the opinion of the court.

The information, consisting of two counts charging, in varying language, the same offense, is based on the third section of an act of the sixth general assembly, commonly called the anti-royalty act. — Session Laws 1887, 308; 1 Mills’ Ann. Stats., sec. 2306. Upon the trial, which, by agreement, was before the' court without a jury, the defendant was adjudged guilty under the second count, upon which the prosecution elected to proceed, and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars, the minimum amount of the penalty fixed by the…