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      "Joseph Bernstein v. The People of the State of Illinois."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Gary\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nThe plaintiff in error was prosecuted under section 2 of the act of 1891, amended in 1895 (Hurd\u2019s Statutes of 1895, page 1555), for selling \u201c goods contained in a box, to which said box was attached an imitation of the label of the Cigar Makers\u2019 International Union of America, an Association of Workingmen.\u201d\nHe was convicted and fined one hundred dollars.\nIn the Criminal Court, by motion to dismiss, to the denial of which the plaintiff in error excepted, he challenged the validity\u2014constitutionality\u2014of section 12 of the act under which the prosecution was commenced before a justice of the peace.\nBy motions of a new trial and in arrest of judgment, not specifying the grounds, the same question was raised. O. O. & F. R. V. R. R. v. McMath, 91 Ill. 104.\nOverruling those motions is assigned as error.\nHow his brief argues the question for our consideration. He has thereby ousted this court of jurisdiction of this writ of error, as' cases involving the validity of a statute are excepted from the jurisdiction of the Appellate Courts. Sec. 8 of Act of 1877, creating Appellate Courts. Ames v. Ames, 44 Ill. App. 576; 148 Ill. 321.\nA freehold and the validity of a statute are on the same plane as to jurisdiction.\nThe writ of error is dismissed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Elijah H. Zoline, attorney for plaintiff in error; Leon Zolotkoff and Hugo Pam, of counsel.",
      "W. F. Struckman, attorney for defendant in error; Clifford & More, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "Joseph Bernstein v. The People of the State of Illinois.\n1. Statutes\u2014Jurisdiction of the Appellate Court in Cases Involving the Validity of.\u2014The Appellate Court has no jurisdiction of cases involving the validity' of a statute.\nProsecution, for selling goods with false label. Error to the Criminal Court of Cook County; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the March term, 1897.\nWrit dismissed.\nOpinion filed May 24, 1897.\nElijah H. Zoline, attorney for plaintiff in error; Leon Zolotkoff and Hugo Pam, of counsel.\nW. F. Struckman, attorney for defendant in error; Clifford & More, of counsel."
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