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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Thomas H. Jones, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Jones",
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  "first_page": "278",
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    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Thomas H. Jones, Plaintiff in Error."
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      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "D. J. Underwood, H. Anderson and J. W. Jones, for plaintiff in error.",
      "J. H. Lane, for defendant in error; A. M. Wilson, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Thomas H. Jones, Plaintiff in Error.\n(Not to he reported in full.)\nError to the Circuit Court of Hamilton county; the Hon. Enoch E. Newlin, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1914.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed July 28, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nComplaint by the People of the State of Illinois against Thomas H. Jones, charging the defendant with \u201cthe criminal offense of trespass by wilfully entering and passing over an improved field, after being expressly forbidden so to do by A. J. Mangis, the owner of said field.\u201d Defendant was found guilty before a justice of the peace, and on appeal to the Circuit Court the jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed a fine of five dollars. A motion for a new trial was overruled and the court entered judgment against defendant for the amount of the fine and costs. To reverse the judgment, defendant prosecutes a writ of error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Tbespass, \u00a7 64 \u2014when person not guilty of statutory offense of trespass. On prosecution a person charged with the criminal offense of trespass on the improved field of another under Criminal Code, ch. 38, \u00a7 266, Hurd\u2019s R. S., J. & A., If 3958, held that the defendant was not expressly forbidden to enter upon the premises as required by statute, where the owner posted a notice on the premises addressed to the defendant and the highway commissioners telling them \u201cto stay off his possession there, and not to come there to make a road,\u201d but defendant never saw the notice, and another time when the defendant went to the owner and asked him about fencing the land the owner answered that he had nothing to say and that he wanted him to keep off his premises.\n2. Tbespass, \u00a7 64*\u2014propriety of proceeding to try title to land. The title to land cannot properly be tried in a suit for the criminal offense of trespass.\nD. J. Underwood, H. Anderson and J. W. Jones, for plaintiff in error.\nJ. H. Lane, for defendant in error; A. M. Wilson, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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