{
  "id": 2744198,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Robert Ernst, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Ernst",
  "decision_date": "1960-05-18",
  "docket_number": "No. 35428",
  "first_page": "380",
  "last_page": "381",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "19 Ill. 2d 380"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:37:20.666909+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Robert Ernst, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Bristow\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nPlaintiff in error was charged by the State\u2019s Attorney with the crime of burglary in nine separate informations filed in the circuit court of Livingston County. He waived the appointment of counsel, waived his right to be prosecuted by indictment, entered pleas of guilty to all of the informations, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for concurrent terms of not less than three nor more than fifteen years.\nOn this writ of error, the sole error assigned is that the informations were void because there were no endorsements on the informations showing that the trial judge had examined them and found probable cause for filing them. There is no merit to this contention. While certain informations filed in county, city, village, or town courts must, under certain circumstances, bear such endorsement (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1955, chap. 37, pars. 289, 345a,) the statute and rule authorizing prosecutions in the circuit court upon information contains no such requirement. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1955, chap. 38, par. 702; chap, no, par. 101.26.\nThe informations were valid and the judgments of conviction are affirmed.\nJudgments affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Bristow"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Robert Ray Ernest, pro se.",
      "Grenville Beardsley, Attorney General, of Springfield, (Fred G. Leach, and Jim D. Keehner, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for the People."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 35428.\nThe People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Robert Ernst, Plaintiff in Error.\nOpinion filed May 18, 1960.\nRobert Ray Ernest, pro se.\nGrenville Beardsley, Attorney General, of Springfield, (Fred G. Leach, and Jim D. Keehner, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel,) for the People."
  },
  "file_name": "0380-01",
  "first_page_order": 380,
  "last_page_order": 381
}