Herman v. People

Annie Herman, Charles Busse and William Si'ekman, plaintiffs in error, were indicted in the Criminal Court of Cook county, and, upon trial and conviction before the court and a jury, were sentenced to the penitentiary, Herman and Busse for five years each, and Siekman for four years.

The indictment contained eleven counts, but as, pending the trial, there was a nolle prosequi of the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and eleventh counts, and the case was submitted to the jury only upon the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and tenth counts, it will be necessary to refer only to these latter…