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  "id": 2846545,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. John Burgess, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Burgess",
  "decision_date": "1914-02-17",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,263",
  "first_page": "205",
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      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 205"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. John Burgess, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nIndictment and information, \u00a7 34*\u2014when information charging a crime on an impossible date states no offense. An information stating an offense was committed on the first day of February, A. D., 191, an impossible date, charges no offense, and objection therefor may be availed of on writ of error prosecuted to reverse a judgment of guilty.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Barnes"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "\"W. W. 0 \u2019Brier and Thomas H. Mercer, for plaintiff in error; Louis Greenberg, of counsel.",
      "Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. John Burgess, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,263.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Thomas F. Scully, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed February 17, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nInformation filed in the Municipal Court \"by the People of the State of Illinois charging John Burgess with the crime of larceny. The trial was by the court, which found defendant guilty and assessed a fine in the sum of one hundred dollars. To reverse the judgment, defendant prosecutes error.\n\"W. W. 0 \u2019Brier and Thomas H. Mercer, for plaintiff in error; Louis Greenberg, of counsel.\nMaclay Hoyne, for defendant in error."
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