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  "id": 2778480,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Batisti Pizzi, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Pizzi",
  "decision_date": "1912-05-23",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 16,837",
  "first_page": "537",
  "last_page": "538",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Batisti Pizzi, Plaintiff in Error."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nBatisti Pizzi, plaintiff, in error, was found guilty upon' an amended information signed and sworn to by one Ethel Archbold, charging him with the offense of pandering. He was sentenced on the verdict.\nIt is argued by counsel for plaintiff in error that the amended information is insufficient in that it does not allege Ethel Archbold to be a \u201cfemale' person.\u201d The language of the statute defining pandering is:\n\u201cAny person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution * * * shall be guilty of pandering.\u201d The language of the amended information is: \u201cEthel Archbold, * * * in her own proper person, comes now here into court, and * * * gives the Court to be informed and understand * * * that Batisti Pizzi * * * did then and there unlawfully and wrongfully procure one Ethel Archbold, the affiant, a female inmate for a house of prostitution, then and located in the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illinois.\u201d Thus it is to be seen that the language of the information, in its charging part, is the language of the statute, and that it is not necessary that affiant be described as a \u201cfemale person.\u201d\nIt is claimed that in the jurat the affiant is described as \u201che\u201d and \u201chim.\u201d However, in the body of the information Ethel Archbold states that she comes into court \u201cin her own proper person,\u201d and that she is \u201cthe affiant, a female.\u201d The information appears to have been signed and sworn to by the said Ethel Arch-bold. Furthermore the name \u201cEthel\u201d imports a person of the female sex. It therefore cannot be held that the mere inadvertence of the clerk who administered the oath can prevail over what appears affirmatively as to the sex of Ethel Archbold.\nThe amended information being sufficient, the verdict thereon was in proper form arid judgment properly followed the verdict. Therefore the judgment will be affirmed.\nAffirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice McSurely"
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    "attorneys": [
      "J. Gray Lucas, for plaintiff in error.",
      "John E. W. Wayman, for defendant in error; Zach Hofheimer, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Batisti Pizzi, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 16,837.\nInformations\u2014when charging pandering sufficient. An information charging pandering in the language of the statute is sufficient. It need not allege that the affiant is a \u2018\u2018female person.\u201d\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edwin K. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1910.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed May 23, 1912.\nJ. Gray Lucas, for plaintiff in error.\nJohn E. W. Wayman, for defendant in error; Zach Hofheimer, of counsel."
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  "file_name": "0537-01",
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