The People v. Heine

An indictment in the circuit court of Stephenson county charged plaintiff in error, Theodore Heine, with the crime of taking indecent liberties with a fourteen-year-old girl. He sues out this writ of error seeking reversal of a judgment of guilty, based on the verdict of a jury. The ultimate facts, and the evidence which established them, are very obscene and they will not be set forth in this opinion because they are of no public interest.

It is first contended by plaintiff in error that there was a failure to swear the jury which passed on the issues. This assignment is founded on four…