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  "id": 2848409,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Charles Norton, alias James Norton, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Norton",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-09",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,547",
  "first_page": "342",
  "last_page": "343",
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      "cite": "185 Ill. App. 342"
    }
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    "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. Charles Norton, alias James Norton, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice MoSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Vagrancy, \u00a7 1*\u2014when evidence insufficient to convict. In a prosecution for vagrancy,, where the witnesses testifying for the People did not undertake to state, of their own knowledge, whether defendant was without lawful means of support, except one witness who testified that defendant operated about fifty peanut machines in saloons, and that he filled the machines every few days, gathering the money out of them, a conviction was not sustained by the evidence.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice MoSurely"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "John F. Tyrrell, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Maglay 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. Charles Norton, alias James Norton, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,547.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Vagrancy, \u00a7 1 \u2014what proof required to convict. To establish the crime of vagrancy, affirmative proof that defendent was without lawful means of support is required.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John R. Newcomer, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed March 9, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nProsecution by The People of the State of Illinois against Charles Norton, alias James Norton, on a charge of vagrancy. From a judgment of conviction, on trial by the court, defendant brings error.\nJohn F. Tyrrell, for plaintiff in error.\nMaglay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Francis E. Hinckley, of counsel.\nSee niinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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