Bruen v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment for burglary, found by the grand jury of Cook county against the plaintiff in error. The jury returned a verdict, finding plaintiff in error guilty of burglary in manner and form as charged in the indictment, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment for burglary, found by the grand jury of Cook county against the plaintiff in error. The jury returned a verdict, finding plaintiff in error guilty of burglary in manner and form as charged in the indictment, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary. At the March term, 1903, of the criminal court of Cook county judgment was rendered upon the verdict, and sentence was pronounced in accordance therewith. The present writ of error is prosecuted from such judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—This indictment for burglary contains two counts. The first charges that plaintiff in error “forcibly,” etc., “did break and enter into the certain building, to-wit, hotel of Washington Porter and Nate R. Salisbury, partners then and there doing business as Porter & -Salisbury,” “with intent to steal,” “contrary,” etc. The second count was the same as the first, with the exception that the grand jury charged plaintiff in error with entering the certain building “without force, the doors and windows being open,” etc., “with intent,” etc.
The first point, made by plaintiff in error, is…
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