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  "id": 2847442,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. William Sweeney, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Sweeney",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-09",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,441",
  "first_page": "340",
  "last_page": "341",
  "citations": [
    {
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      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 340"
    }
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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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. William Sweeney, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McSukely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nVagrancy, \u00a7 1 \u2014when evidence insufficient to sustain conviction. Under the Vagrancy Act (Criminal- Code, ch. 38, sec. 270, J. & A. If 3962) an essential ingredient of the offense is that the person charged shall have \u201cno lawful means of support\u201d and shall be \u201chabitually found prowling around any steamboat landing, railroad depot * * * store, shop or crowded thoroughfare, car or omnibus,\u201d etc., hence where three police officers testified that defendant was a thief, but as to whether he had any lawful means of support they had no knowledge, there being no evidence that he was habitually found prowling about any of the places named, and defendant\u2019s evidence showed' that he lived with his wife, children and mother, had been employed as a railroad laborer for several months preceding his arrest, had worked until noon on the day of his arrest and was arrested while sitting, in a cigar store about four o\u2019clock in the afternoon, the evidence was held insufficient to sustain a conviction.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice McSukely"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "James C. 0 \u2019Brier, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Maolay Hoyre, for defendant in error; Frarcis E. Hirckley, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. William Sweeney, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,441.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hugh R. Stewabt, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed March 9, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nProsecution by The People of the State of Illinois against William Sweeney under the Vagrancy Act. From a judgment finding him guilty of vagrancy, defendant brings error.\nJames C. 0 \u2019Brier, for plaintiff in error.\nMaolay Hoyre, for defendant in error; Frarcis E. Hirckley, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0340-01",
  "first_page_order": 366,
  "last_page_order": 367
}