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  "id": 2875934,
  "name": "City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Joseph Smith, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "City of Chicago v. Smith",
  "decision_date": "1915-11-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,111",
  "first_page": "349",
  "last_page": "350",
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      "cite": "195 Ill. App. 349"
    }
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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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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:42:01.145099+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Joseph Smith, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Baker\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Criminal law, \u00a7 39 \u2014what is effect of appearance. Where, defendant in a criminal case appears and submits the ease to the court, the only question is whether defendant is guilty as charged, and in such case the facts relating to his arrest are immaterial.\n2. Municipal corporation, \u00a7 863 \u2014when complaint for violating ordinance states single offense. A complaint under section 2012 of the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago, charging a violation of the ordinance, in that defendant \u201cdid make, aid, countenance and assist in making an improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of the peace and diversion tending to a breach of the peace,\u201d charges a single offense only, and is not a blanket complaint.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Baker"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "A. L. Williams, for plaintiff in error.",
      "John W. Beckwith and Albert J. W. Appell, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Joseph Smith, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,111.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Frank H. Graham, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the March term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 15, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nProsecution by the City of Chicago against Joseph Smith, defendant, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, charging defendant with a violation of section 2012 of the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago. To reverse a judgment of conviction and the assessment of a fine of two hundred dollars against defendant, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nA. L. Williams, for plaintiff in error.\nJohn W. Beckwith and Albert J. W. Appell, for defendant in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0349-01",
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  "last_page_order": 376
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