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  "id": 2869858,
  "name": "City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. William Wright, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "City of Chicago v. Wright",
  "decision_date": "1915-12-21",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 21,036",
  "first_page": "578",
  "last_page": "579",
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      "cite": "195 Ill. App. 578"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. William Wright, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Gentzel & Crake and William H. Gruver, for plaintiff in error.",
      "John W. Beckwith and Albert J. W. Appell, for defendant in error.",
      "John F. Power, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. William Wright, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 21,036.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles N. Goodnow, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed December 21, 1915.\nAbstract of the Decision.\nLewdness\u2014when admission of evidence error. In a prosecution wherein defendant was charged with uttering indecent words and with making obscene gestures publicly, in violation of an ordinance, the admission of evidence that defendant had used indecent language held prejudicial, where it appeared that the indecent language testified to was not used in the presence of the complaining witness.\nStatement of the Case.\nProsecution by the City of Chicago against William Wright, defendant, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, charging defendant with committing \u201can indecent, lewd and filthy act,\u201d with uttering \u201clewd, indecent and filthy words\u201d and with making \u201cobscene gestures publicly\u201d in violation of section 2026 of the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago. To reverse a judgment of conviction, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nGentzel & Crake and William H. Gruver, for plaintiff in error.\nJohn W. Beckwith and Albert J. W. Appell, for defendant in error.\nJohn F. Power, of counsel."
  },
  "file_name": "0578-01",
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  "last_page_order": 605
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