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PEOPLE v. REINER

No. 33584-5.

6 Ill.2d 337 (1955)

129 N.E.2d 159

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff in Error, v. WALTER J. REINER, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 23, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, and CLIFFORD N. COOLIDGE, State's Attorney, of Bloomington, (JOHN L. DAVIDSON, JR., WALTER L. LINDGREN, FRED G. LEACH, LEE D. MARTIN, and WILLIAM C. WINES, of counsel,) for the People.

CHESTER THOMSON, RALPH SCHROEDER, and ROBERT MARKOWITZ, all of Bloomington, for defendant in error.

WILLIAM S. WARFIELD III, and FRANCIS D. FISHER, amici curiae, for The Citizens Traffic Safety Board of Chicago; JOSEPH H. BRAUN, HUGH NEILL JOHNSON, and PHILIP E. RYAN, all of Chicago, (ODE L. RANKIN, of counsel,) amici curiae, for Chicago Motor Club.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

Walter J. Reiner, a police magistrate of the city of Bloomington, was indicted by the McLean County grand jury for palpable omission of duty. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap. 38, par. 449.) The indictment charged that the defendant, as police magistrate, entered a judgment convicting one Lyle Casali of driving while drunk in violation of an ordinance of the city of Bloomington, but...

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