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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Charles Nelson, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Nelson",
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      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Charles Nelson, Plaintiff in Error."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Stone\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe State\u2019s attorney of Saline county filed in the county court an information charging that the plaintiff in error within said county \u201cunlawfully did then and there possess intoxicating liquor in violation of the Illinois Prohibition act.\u201d The second count of the same information charged that the plaintiff in error \u201cunlawfully did then and there manufacture intoxicating liquor in violation of the Illinois Prohibition act.\u201d Plaintiff in error entered a plea of guilty ern both counts. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $200 and costs on the first count and a fine of $300 and costs on the second count, and that he be confined to the State farm at Vandalia for a period of ninety days and to work out the fines at said farm unless the same were paid. He brings the cause here for review.\nNumerous grounds of error are urged, one of which is that the information does not charge the plaintiff in error with any crime under the law, and that since this is so, he is entitled to a reversal of the judgment notwithstanding his plea of guilty; and this is so. (People v. Brown, 312 Ill. 63.) The information in this case did not charge an offense. People v. Barnes, 314 Ill. 140; People v. Martin, id. 110.\nNumerous other grounds are assigned, but it becomes unnecessary to consider them.\nThe judgment will be reversed.\nJudgmmt reversed,",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Stone"
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    "attorneys": [
      "A. C. Lewis, and H. R. Lightfoot, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, Charles T. Elota, State\u2019s Attornejq Virgil L. Blanding, and Charles F. Mansfield, for the People."
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    "head_matter": "(No. 16787.\nJudgment reversed.)\nThe People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Charles Nelson, Plaintiff in Error.\nOpinion filed October 28, 1925.\nProhibition \u2014 when information does not charge an offense\u2014 plea of guilty. An information charging that the defendant \u201cunlawfully did then and there possess intoxicating liquor in violation of the Illinois Prohibition act,\u201d and that he \u201cunlawfully did then and there manufacture intoxicating liquor in violation\u201d of said act, is not sufficient to charge either offense, and the defendant is entitled to reversal of a judgment of conviction notwithstanding he has pleaded guilty.\nWrit of Error to the County Court of Saline county; the Hon. A. G. Abney, Judge, presiding.\nA. C. Lewis, and H. R. Lightfoot, for plaintiff in error.\nOscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, Charles T. Elota, State\u2019s Attornejq Virgil L. Blanding, and Charles F. Mansfield, for the People."
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