Opinion
Gen. No. 42,988. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed June 30, 1944
ELECTIONS, § 241 — when evidence insufficient to show violation of election laws. On writ of error to review judgment finding defendant guilty of violation of election laws, wherein it was charged that defendant wrote his name and affixed his notarial seal to various nominating petitions knowing that the signatures of the persons whose names were signed to the affidavits as circulators had been forged, held that entire proof and circumstances relied upon by State for proof of essential element of defendant's guilty knowledge was insufficient and judgment was reversed.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Error to the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. DON SCOTT, Judge, presiding.
Judgment reversed. Heard in the third division, first district, this court at the February term, 1944.
Mayer Goldberg, of Chicago, for plaintiff in error;
Thomas J. Courtney, State's Attorney, for defendant in error;
John F. Cashen, Jr., of Chicago, of counsel.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed June 30, 1944.