Dreyer v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. By an indictment returned in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, on the 4th day of February, 1899, the plaintiff in error Dreyer was charged with the offence of having failed to turn over to his successor in office, as treasurer of the West Chicago Park Commissioners, revenues, bonds, funds, warrants and personal property that came to his hands as such treasurer, of the value of $316,013.40 — said Commissioners…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. By an indictment returned in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, on the 4th day of February, 1899, the plaintiff in error Dreyer was charged with the offence of having failed to turn over to his successor in office, as treasurer of the West Chicago Park Commissioners, revenues, bonds, funds, warrants and personal property that came to his hands as such treasurer, of the value of $316,013.40 — said Commissioners constituting a Board of Public Park Commissioners appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate of Illinois, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
It is contended that the judgment of- the Supreme Court of Illinois, affirming the judgment in the present case of the Criminal Court of Cook County, in that State, denied to the plaintiff in error certain rights sectured to him by the Constitution of the United States, particularly by the clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbidding a State to deprive any person of liberty without due process of law.
The defendant insists that three questions, involving rights secured by the Constitution of the United States, are presented by the assignments of error.
1. The first of those questions, as…
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