People v. Dada

The plaintiff in error was found guilty by a jury in the Municipal Court of Chicago on May 20, 1907, of obtaining goods by false pretenses. The prosecution was originally begun in the Municipal Court and was by information. On May 25, 1907, a judge of the Municipal Court sentenced him “to confinement at labor * * # in the House of Correction in the city of Chicago * * * for the said crime of obtaining goods by false pretenses, whereof he stands convicted, for the term of one year; * * * also to pay * * * a fine of two hundred dollars and also the costs * * * taxed at twenty dollars * * * ”…