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  "id": 2914017,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Isaac Berger, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Berger",
  "decision_date": "1918-01-28",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 23,535",
  "first_page": "301",
  "last_page": "302",
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      "cite": "209 Ill. App. 301"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Isaac Berger, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Charles Horgan, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Edward E. Wilson, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Isaac Berger, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 23,535. (Not to be reported in full.)\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Rurus P. Robinson, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1917.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed January 28, 1918.\nStatement of the Case.\nProsecution by the People of the State of Illinois, plaintiff, against Isaac Berger, defendant, charging defendant with violation of section 57, ch. 38, Rev. St. (J. & A. \u00b6 3591), in renting or letting a room or rooms for purposes of prostitution, fornication and lewdness. From a judgment, on trial before the court without a jury, finding defendant guilty and fining him $200, defendant brings error.\nCharles Horgan, for plaintiff in error.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Prostitution, \u00a7 4 \u2014when evidence warrants conviction of renting rooms for. Evidence held sufficient to sustain a conviction, under an information charging defendant with renting rooms for purposes of prostitution.\n2. Prostitution, \u00a7 4*\u2014when evidence of character of inmates of house admissible. Evidence as to the character of certain persons who were inmates of defendant\u2019s house was properly admitted, as tending to show the character of his house as immoral, under an information charging defendant with renting rooms for purposes of prostitution.\n3. Criminal law, \u00a7 506*\u2014when evidence presumed to support judgment. Where a criminal case is tried before the court without a jury, the presumption will be indulged on appeal that there is sufficient evidence in the record, unchallenged, to sustain the judgment, and that the court heeded only competent evidence in rendering same, notwithstanding there may have been incompetent evidence.\n4. Criminal law\u2014when denial of further argument proper. Where the trial judge without objection rendered his opinion, on a trial of a criminal case before the court without a jury, and pronounced judgment, going over the crucial questions in the case understandingly, his refusal thereafter to allow further argument was justified and within his rights.\n5. Criminal law, \u00a7 553*\u2014when denial of privilege of argument harmless error. Denying to counsel the privilege of argument, on trial of a criminal case before the \u25a0 court without a jury, will not of itself constitute reversible error where the record clearly sustains the judgment.\nMaclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Edward E. Wilson, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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