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  "id": 2800218,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Isaih Williams, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Williams",
  "decision_date": "1962-03-23",
  "docket_number": "No. 36236",
  "first_page": "214",
  "last_page": "215",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Isaih Williams, Plaintiff in Error."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Klingbiel\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe defendant was tried by the court without a jury in the criminal court of Cook County and was convicted of the crime of larceny of a motor vehicle. A writ of error has been issued to review the judgment of conviction.\nIt was stipulated at the trial that Andrew Felton, the owner of the automobile, would testify that he parked his 1959 Chevrolet in front of his home at night and that the following morning he found the car was missing. A few days later he identified the car at the city auto pound. It Was stipulated that thig witness would testify that when he saw the car at the pound, the trunk lock was broken, the ignition wires were pulled out and a radio and a jack were missing.\nEdward Martin, a police officer, testified that on July 2, while he was on routine patrol, he saw a 1959 Chevrolet parked in the vicinity of 710 East 63rd Street in Chicago. The officer waited to see if anyone would return to the car, and a short time later two men returned and were placed under arrest. Neither of these men was the defendant. After a conversation with these men, the officer proceeded to the defendant\u2019s home and placed him under arrest. Officer Martin testified that defendant told him \u201cthe car\u201d had been loaned to him by a girl by the name of Dorothy Simpson. The officer attempted to locate Dorothy Simpson but was unable to do so.\nThis was the only evidence offered on behalf of the State. The most which can be said for it is that it established that Andrew Felton\u2019s car had been stolen, that a few days later a 1959 Chevrolet was recovered by the police; and that the defendant claimed to have received \u201cthe car\u201d from Dorothy Simpson. Not only does this testimony fail to positively link defendant with the car found by the police, it completely fails to prove that the car found on the street was the car stolen from Felton. A judgment of conviction cannot be permitted to stand upon such evidence.\nThe judgment of the criminal court of Cook County is therefore reversed.\nJudgment reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Klingbiel"
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    "attorneys": [
      "J. William Hayton, of Chicago, appointed by the court, for plaintiff in error.",
      "William G. Clark, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Daniel P. Ward, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago, (Fred G. Leach, Assistant Attorney General, and John T. Gallagher and Leo F. Poch, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "(No. 36236.\nThe People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Isaih Williams, Plaintiff in Error.\nOpinion filed March 23, 1962.\nJ. William Hayton, of Chicago, appointed by the court, for plaintiff in error.\nWilliam G. Clark, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Daniel P. Ward, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago, (Fred G. Leach, Assistant Attorney General, and John T. Gallagher and Leo F. Poch, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People."
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  "file_name": "0214-01",
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  "last_page_order": 215
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