{
  "id": 2846354,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Robert Wallace, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Wallace",
  "decision_date": "1914-02-17",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,500",
  "first_page": "213",
  "last_page": "214",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 213"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:43:38.716309+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Robert Wallace, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Clark\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nInfants, \u00a7 24a \u2014sufficiency of information charging contributing to delinquency of child. Where an information charged that defendant \u201cdid unlawfully, wilfully and knowingly encourage, aid, cause, abet and connive at the delinquency of * * * a minor female child under the age of eighteen years, to wit, sixteen years, and did then and there knowingly and wilfully do acts that directly produced, promoted and contributed to conditions which rendered said * * * a delinquent child, in that the said * * * did then and there take the said * * * to a room in the * * * hotel * * * in the City of Chicago, contrary to the form of the statute,\u201d etc., it was held that the information was sufficient under Criminal Code, div. XI, sec. 6, & A. If 4105, since the portion of the information ending with the words \u201csixteen years\u201d charged a crime in the language of the statute, and the remaining portion should be regarded as surplusage, and hence \u201cthe nature of the offense\u201d could \u201cbe easily understood.\u201d",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Clark"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "John L. Hopkins, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Francis E. Hinckley, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Robert Wallace, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,500.\n(Wot to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 17, 1914.\nRehearing denied March 3, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nProceeding by the People of the State of Illinois on information against Robert Wallace, charging defendant with contributing to the delinquency of a minor female child of the age of sixteen years. From a judgment of conviction, defendant brings error assigning as error the overruling of defendant\u2019s motion to quash the information and in arrest of judgment.\nJohn L. Hopkins, for plaintiff in error.\nMaclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Francis E. Hinckley, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0213-01",
  "first_page_order": 239,
  "last_page_order": 240
}