Millett v. People

The defendant was indicted and convicted of failing, as the agent of the owner of a certain coal mine, to cause to be furnished and placed upon the railroad track, adjacent to the coal mine, a track scale of standard measure, upon which to weigh the coal hoisted from the mine, as provided by section 1 of “-An act to provide for the weighing of coal at the mines, ” approved June 14, 1883, and the several sections of the act to amend sections 2, 3 and 4 of that act, approved June 29, 1885.

We held in Jones v. The People, 110 Ill. 590, that it was competent to show, in defence of a person…