People v. Stamatides

George A. Stamatides and George Douras have sued out this writ of error to review a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county finding them guilty of a criminal offense and sentencing them to pay a fine of $200 each and to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not to exceed three years.

Plaintiffs in error will hereafter be referred to as defendants. They were indicted in January, 1916. The indictment charged that they were doing a banking business as partners in Cook county and that they received a deposit at a time when they were insolvent…