People of the State of Illinois v. Slade

Full title: People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Ruth Slade…

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: May 5, 1943

319 Ill. App. 114 (Ill. App. Ct. 1943)

48 N.E.2d 795

Opinion

Gen. No. 42,480. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed May 5, 1943

DRUGS AND DRUGGISTS, § 10^_ — sufficiency of indictment or information based on narcotic-drugs statute. Statute, dealing with narcotic drugs, sufficiently describes the crime, and an indictment or information, based on such statute, was sufficient if it stated the offense in the language of the statute.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. N.J. BONELLI, Judge, presiding.

Judgment affirmed. Heard in the third division, first district, this court at the October term, 1942.

W.G. Anderson, for plaintiff in error;

Thomas J. Courtney, State's Attorney, for defendant in error;

Edward E. Wilson, John T. Gallagher, Melvin S. Rembe and Joseph A. Pope, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel.

Opinion by PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed May 5, 1943.