Legal Opinion

Bolun v. People

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1874PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of. Iroquois county; the Hon. Nathaniel J. Pillsbury, Judge, presiding.

1Per curiam

The plaintiff in error was indicted for selling spirituous • liquors contrary to the statute. The jury having found him guilty on six counts, the court imposed upon him a fine of $120, and sentenced him to imprisonment in the county jail for a period of sixty days.

This was error. The judgment should have been entered separately on each count on which the accused was found guilty, and the terms of imprisonment imposed fixed successively, to commence at the expiration of the next preceding sentence.

The case of The People ex rel. v. Whitson, 74 Ill. 20, is conclusive on this point in the case.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Manyx v. WhitsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1874

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Howard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1896
  2. Sustar v. County CourtOregon Supreme Court · 1921
  3. In re WalshNebraska Supreme Court · 1893
  4. Chicago & Alton R. R. v. PeopleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1899
  5. Dachsenbuehler v. PeopleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1900

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