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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Melvin Lester, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Lester",
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  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,717",
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Melvin Lester, Plaintiff in Error."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "George W. Blackwell, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; John F. Cashen, Jr., of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Melvin Lester, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 22,717.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Criminal law, \u00a7 502 \u2014 when information presumed to he sufficient. In the absence of a motion, preliminarily made, to quash an information, after judgment, it will be presumed on review that the information was sufficient in law, unless it appears from the information itself that it failed to charge defendant with the commission of a crime.\n2. Vagrancy, \u00a7 4* \u2014 when information is sufficient. An information which charged that defendant heretofore, to wit, on the 18th day of October, A. D. 1915, at the City of Chicago, \u201cwas an idle and dissolute person\u201d and \u201cwas habitually neglectful of his employment and calling, and did not lawfully provide for himself and for the support of his family\u201d; that he \u201cwas an idle and dissolute person and neglected all lawful business, and did habitually misspend his time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gaming houses and tippling shops, without giving a good account of himself,\u201d and that he was a \u201cthief,' having no lawful means of support, and is habitually found prowling around crowded thoroughfares and lounging about, and found in houses of ill fame, gambling houses and tippling shops,\u201d' contrary to the statute, etc., held sufficient to charge defendant with vagabondage and to inform him of the nature and quality of the charge, even though defendant is termed a vagrant in the information. ,\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Charles H. Bowles, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.\nAffirmed.'\nOpinion filed July 2, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nInformation by the People of the State of Illinois, plaintiff, against Melvin Lester, defendant, on the charge of being a vagabond. To reverse a sentence of imprisonment for six months in the house of correetion, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.\nGeorge W. Blackwell, for plaintiff in error.\nMaclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; John F. Cashen, Jr., of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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