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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Ethel Melville, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Melville",
  "decision_date": "1914-02-17",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,714",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Ethel Melville, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Clark\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Clark"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Thomas J. 0 \u2019Hare and Frank H. Bowen, for plain! tiff in error.",
      "Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Edward E. Wilson, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Ethel Melville, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,714.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edwabd T. Wade, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 17, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nProceeding on information by the People of the State of Illinois against Ethel Melville charging defendant with having contributed to the delinquency of a female child in persuading her to visit houses of ill-fame. From a judgment of conviction, defendant brings error.\nThomas J. 0 \u2019Hare and Frank H. Bowen, for plain! tiff in error.\nMaclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Edward E. Wilson, of counsel.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Criminal law, \u00a7 471 \u2014questions reviewable on record. The record must be taken as it stood on the day of the issuance of the writ of error, and consequently a subsequent order expunging from, the record an order showing arraignment and plea cannot be considered.\n2. Criminal law, \u00a7 526 \u2014failure to arraign as harmless error. On trial by consent by the court without a jury, failure to arraign is not reversible error.\n3. Criminal law, \u00a7 430 \u2014sufficiency of information, how saved. Where the information charges an offense, though defectively, objection can be raised only by motion to quash.\n4. Infants, \u00a7 24a \u2014sufficiency of 'information charging contributing to delinquency. An information charging that defendant at certain place on a named date \u201cdid then and there contribute to the delinquency of one * * * a female of previous chaste life under the age of sixteen years by supplying her with clothing and persuading her to visit houses of ill-fame with one * * * and did knowingly do such acts that directly produced the conditions which rendered such child a delinquent child, viol. Sec. 42, H. B. Chap. 38 Revised Statutes, contrary,\u201d etc., is sufficient to state an offense, though defectively, and objection may be saved only by motion to quash.\ngee Illinois yptes Digest, Yplg. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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