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      "The City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Henry Hiltwein, Plaintiff in Error."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Smith\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThe plaintiff in error was prosecuted for making a delivery of a load of oats in the city of Chicago, having in his possession and producing \u201ca false and fraudulent memorandum which was not the result of an actual weighing of the produce so delivered, \u2019 \u2019 in violation of an ordinance passed June 8, 1908, of the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago. He was found guilty and fined fifty dollars.\nThe evidence and agreed statement of facts submitted to the jury showed that Hiltwein on the day in question had his load of oats weighed at the C. M. & St. P. railway tracks, and received a ticket from the weigher. He then drove to his employers\u2019 place and handed in said ticket, and his employers issued him another ticket on their stationery, showing the same weight to be delivered to the purchaser, but this ticket Hiltwein did not take with him. On bis way to make the delivery he recalled that he had left the ticket. He said, \u201cOf course I had been in a couple of saloons and had a few drinks, and I made out a ticket in the saloon.\u201d He had in his pocket a blank Wisconsin Central Railway ticket and he filled out same with a car number, gross, tare and net weights,\u2014 as he said, \u201cWhat I thought was about right.\u201d Inspectors had followed him to the place of delivery and, demanding his ticket, it showed a net weight of 8,440 pounds\u20141,150 pounds more than he actually had.\nThe ordinance is in part: \u201cAny driver of a wagon * * * who shall have in his possession or who shall, upon request, produce or deliver any false or fraudulent memorandum or any memorandum which is not the result of an actual weighing of the produce so being delivered, shall be fined,\u201d etc. Counsel for plaintiff in error admits \u201cthe proof showed the ticket was not the result of an actual weighing,\u201d but insists very vigorously that the charge being in the conjunctive it was necessary \u201cto prove each ingredient of the charge by a clear preponderance of the evidence,\u201d and that the proof did not show the ticket was false and fraudulent. The court instructed the jury \u201cthat the burden is on the city to show by a clear preponderance of the evidence in this case that,\u201d etc.\nBishop on Criminal Procedure, Yol. 1, sec. 436, says: \u201cIt is common for a statute to declare, that, if a person does this, or this, or this, he shall be punished in a way pointed out. Now, if, in a single transaction, he does all the things, he violates the statute but once, and incurs only one penalty. Yet he violates it equally by doing one of the things. Therefore an indictment upon a statute of this kind may allege in a single count that the defendant did as many of the forbidden things as the pleader chooses, employing the conjunction and where the statute has or, and it will not be double and it will be established at the trial by proof of any one of them.\u201d\nIn Blemer v. The People, 76 Ill. 265, the court said, p. 272: \u201cWhere a statute forbids several things in the alternative, it is usually construed as creating but a single offense, and the indictment may charge the defendant with committing all the acts, using the conjunction and where the statute uses the disjunction or.\u201d Clifford v. State, 29 Wis. 327; State v. Kerr, 3 No. Dak. 523; City v. Marvin, 16 Minn. 91.\nIt is argued that although the ticket was not a correct or true ticket, it was not a false ticket, in that there was no evidence of intentional wrong and Hiltwein thought it \u201cwas about right.\u201d ' The court instructed the jury on the meaning of a false ticket as requested by plaintiff in error, and the jury might properly conclude that on being detected Mr. Hiltwein, who was an experienced driver, might naturally think the weight \u201cwas about right,\u201d and under all the circumstances find it was a false ticket. It follows that plaintiff in error could not have been prejudiced by the refusal of the court to give the instruction defining \u201cfraudulent,\u201d and the judgment will be affirmed.\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Robert H. Stoll, for plaintiff in error.",
      "George H. White, for defendant in error; Henry M. Seligman, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "The City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Henry Hiltwein, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 15,669.\n1. Pleading\u2014form of indictment where ordinance or statute forbids an alternative. In this case the court quotes with approval the holding in Blemer v. People, 76 Ill. 265: \u201cWhere a statute forbids several things in the alternative, it is usually construed as creating but a single offense, and the indictment may charge the defendant with committing all the acts, using the conjunction and where the statute uses the disjunction or.\u201d\n2. Ordinances\u2014when conviction of producing memorandum not result of actual weighing sustained. Held, that the conviction in this case which was for the violation of an ordinance prohibiting, among other things, the producing of \u201ca false and fraudulent memorandum which was not the result of an actual weighing of the produce\u201d delivered, was proper, and that the instructions given were not prejudicial.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Sheridan E. Fry, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1909.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 13, 1911.\nRobert H. Stoll, for plaintiff in error.\nGeorge H. White, for defendant in error; Henry M. Seligman, of counsel."
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