PEOPLE v. THOMPSON

Gen. No. 9,658.

339 Ill. App. 158 (1949)

89 N.E.2d 195

People of State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Glen R. Thompson, alias Bob Thompson, Plaintiff in Error.

Appellate Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied December 21, 1949.

Released for publication December 22, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

CLARENCE B. DAVIS and THOMAS W. HOOPES, both of Springfield, for plaintiff in error.

GEORGE P. COUTRAKON, State's Attorney, of Sangamon County, Springfield, for defendant in error; LAWRENCE SWINYER, Assistant State's Attorney, of Sangamon County, Springfield, of counsel.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE WHEAT delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant Thompson was found guilty by jury verdict of the crime of keeping a house of ill fame and was sentenced to pay a fine in the sum of $200 and to serve one year at the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia. Only one assigned error is argued: that the giving of the following instruction for the People constitutes reversible error:

"The Court instructs the jury in the language of the Statute that...

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