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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Karl Bernhardt, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Bernhardt",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-11",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 19,733",
  "first_page": "421",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Karl Bernhardt, Plaintiff in Error."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Graves\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "John T. Byrnes, 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. Karl Bernhardt, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 19,733.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nFalse pbetenses, \u00a7 37 \u2014when evidence insufficient to sustain conviction for obtaining goods by false pretense. On information charging defendant with obtaining goods by false pretense, the evidence showed that defendant had signed a blank check and left it with his wife to fill out for a certain party but that during his absence his wife permitted a messenger, who was delivering goods purchased of a different firm, to fill out the check with the amount and the firm\u2019s name as payee, held that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction, there being no proof that defendant delivered the check to the firm or authorized any one to do so for him or even contemplated the possibility that the check would be so delivered.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Habby M. Fisheb, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1913.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed March 11, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nInformation \"by The People of the State of Illinois against Karl Bernhardt charging defendant with obtaining goods of the value of $743.75 by false pretenses. To reverse a judgment of conviction, defendant prosecutes a writ of error.\nJohn T. Byrnes, 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."
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