Legal Opinion

People v. O'Keefe

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 6, 1913No. Gen. No. 18,224Published

Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edwin K. WalKER, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1912.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

On December 28, 1911, an information was filed in the Municipal Court of Chicago, which informed the court that William O’Keefe, appellant and hereinafter called defendant, on November 28, 1911, at Chicago, “was then and there an idle and dissolute person living without lawful means of employment or support, habitually misspending his time by loitering about public thoroughfares, public buildings, railway depots and street cars, acting in a suspicious manner and is known to be a pickpocket, contrary to the form of the statute,”…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Kettles v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1906
  2. Harbaugh v. City of MonmouthIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
  3. Noecker v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
  4. Birr v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1885

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