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        "text": "Mr. Justice Willis\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis is an information in the name of the state\u2019s attorney brought in the County Court of Kankakee county against Napoleon Giroux for a violation of section 6, chapter 43 of an act entitled \u201cDram-shops,\u201d which is as follows: \u201cWhoever, by himself, or his agent or servant, shall sell or give intoxicating liquor * * * to any person intoxicated, or who is in the habit of getting intoxicated, shall for each offense be fined not less than $20 nor more than $100. or imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days, or both, according to the nature of the offense.\u201d The information contained five counts charging the sale of intoxicating liquor to one Mitchell Bertrand in violation of the statute. A motion, to quash was overruled, and on motion of the state\u2019s attorney leave was had, and the information amended, by striking out the word \u201cis\u201d in each count and inserting in the place thereof the word \u201cwho\u201d and preceding the word \u201cin\u201d the words \u201cwas then and there.\u201d The trial was upon the information as amended and a plea of not guilty. There was a verdict of guilty on the first count, a motion for a new trial denied, plaintiff in error sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs and stand committed until the fine and costs were paid, and this writ sued out to review the proceedings.\nIt is urged that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash , and in permitting the amendment. The disposal of the point raised on the amendment will also answer the objection on the ruling to quash. In Truitt v. People, 88 Ill. 518, Lord Mansfield is quoted as saying in Rex v. Wilkes, 4 Burrow, 320: \u2018\u2018 There is a great difference between amending indictments and amending informations. Indictments are found upon the oaths of a jury and ought only to be amended by themselves; but informations are as declarations in the King\u2019s suit. An officer of the crown has the right of framing them originally, and may, with leave, amend in like manner as any plaintiff may do,\u201d The doctrine so recognized in Truitt v. People, supra, was followed in Daxanbekler v. The People, 93 Ill. App. 553, and in Carter v. The People, 122 Ill. App. 77. The motion to amend was immediately after the motion to quash was overruled, and the court treating the information as a declaration at common law did not err in permitting the amendment, and it was as well had after overruling the motion to quash as before.\nIt is next urged that the amended information was not verified. \u201cAll offenses cognizable in county courts shall be prosecuted by information of the state\u2019s attorney, attorney general or some other person, and when an information is presented by any person other than the state\u2019s attorney or attorney general it shall be verified by affidavit of such person.\u201d Hurd\u2019s R. S. 1905, chapter 37, par. 207. The information here was in the name of the state\u2019s attorney and needed no verification, and plaintiff\u2019s objection that it was not verified is entirely without merit.\nIt is finally urged that there was not sufficient proof of the \u201ccorpus delicti,\u201d proof of the habit and proof of the sale and intoxicating nature of the liquor. The statute does not say \u201cfixed habit;\u201d it says, \u201ca person who is in the habit of getting intoxicated;\u201d \u201cthat is, having the involuntary tendency to become intoxicated which is acquired by frequent repetition.\u201d Murphy v. The People, 90 Ill. 59. The evidence shows that Bertrand had been drunk or intoxicated five or six times within four months before the trial, and a number of other times within the limit of the proof under the information. A man without the involuntary tendency to become intoxicated could hardly be supposed to be guilty of such excesses. Murphy v. The People, supra.\nThere was a conflict in the evidence relative to the sale of liquor and its intoxicating qualities. Two wholly disinterested witnesses testified that on January 15, 1906, Bertrand came into plaintiff in error\u2019s saloon, called for brandy, received a bottle and glass, poured into the glass some of the contents of the bottle, drank the same and paid the plaintiff in error some money. One stated that it looked like brandy. Bertrand\u2019s son testified that one day in the same year and month he saw his father drink lager beer at plaintiff\u2019s bar. He knew it was lager beer because he, at the same time, drank out of the same faucet. Plaintiff in error testified that he never sold Bertrand any liquor, but had frequently sold him jamaica ginger and peppermint and ginger ale when he called for brandy, whiskey or beer. Bertrand testified, corroborating plaintiff in error, and several witnesses testified they never saw plaintiff in error sell Bertrand intoxicating liquor. The evidence of witnesses testifying that they did not see the selling is negative only, and does not tend to disprove the affirmative evidence of those testifying that they had seen the sale.\nThe jury were fully and fairly instructed as to the presumptions of law arising \"in plaintiff in error\u2019s favor; how to weigh his testimony with that of the other evidence in the case; as to the measure and character of proof necessary to warrant \u25a0 conviction. .They saw the witnesses, their conduct and demeanor while testifying, and had an opportunity to determine their interest and motives and decide which were telling the truth. We are unable to say from this record that the jury were unauthorized in finding that Bertrand was in the habit of getting intoxicated, and that plaintiff in error sold him intoxicating liquor as charged in the first count of the amended declaration.\nThe judgment is affirmed.\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "T. W. Shields, for plaintiff in error.",
      "J. Bert. Miller, for defendant in error."
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    "head_matter": "Napoleon Giroux v. The People of the State of Illinois.\nGen. No. 4,723.\n1. Information-\u2014\u25a0power of court to permit amendment of. In-formations are not like indictments, and the court may in its discretion permit them to be amended.\n2. Information\u2014when need not be verified. An information presented - by and in the name of the state\u2019s attorney need not be verified.\n3. Dram-shop act\u2014what sufficient to establish violation of sec tion 6. Section 6 of this act does not say \u201cfixed habit;\u201d it says \u201ca person who is in the habit of getting intoxicated,\u201d and proof of a fixed habit is not essential to a conviction under this section.\nInformation for violation of Dram-shop Act. Error to the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Arthur W. DeSelm, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1906.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed March 13, 1907.\nT. W. Shields, for plaintiff in error.\nJ. Bert. Miller, for defendant in error."
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