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PEOPLE v. GENTRY

Gen. No. 10,057.

10 Ill. App.2d 142 (1956)

134 N.E.2d 367

People of State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Plaintiff in Error, v. Damon L. Gentry, Defendant-Defendant in Error.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Released for publication May 31, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Latham Castle, of Springfield, Attorney General of State of Illinois, for plaintiff in error; Carroll V. Wintersteen, of Havana, State's Attorney of Mason County, Fred G. Leach, of Springfield, and Edwin A. Strugala, of Chicago, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel.

No brief filed for defendant in error.

JUDGE CARROLL delivered the opinion of the court.

An information filed in the County Court of Mason county charged the defendant with being a vagabond.

The defendant filed a motion to quash the same on the ground that the county court lacks jurisdiction over vagrancy cases; that Par. 579, Chap. 38, Revised Statutes of Illinois, 1955, specifies that such cases shall be heard by a justice of the peace or a police...

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