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253 Ill. 57

People v. Cantwell

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 21, 1911

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1911-12-21

<p>Assault and battery—information need not allege, in terms, that assault was unlawfully made. ■ An information charging the defendant with assault and battery is not fatally defective though it does not allege, in terms, that the assault was unlawfully made.</p>

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1978

3 state decisions

Relies on State v. Bray · State v. Hays

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1911-12-21

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Mr. Justice Dunn

¶1delivered the opinion of the court:

¶2The plaintiff in error was convicted in the municipal court of Chicago of assault and battery. The Appellate Court having affirmed the judgment he has brought the record here for review, and contends that the information is not sufficient, that a reference to the defendant’s right to testify entitled him to a new trial, and that the instructions were erroneous.

¶3The objection made to the information is, that it does not allege that the assault was unlawfully made. The information is sufficient at common law and is equally good to charge a violation of the statute. 3 Chitty’s Crim. Law, 821; Bishop’s Directions and Forms, 99, sec. 201; Curtis v. People, Breese, 256; State v. Bray, 1 Mo. 180; State v. Hays, 41 Tex. 526.

¶4The remark of the State’s attorney which is complained of does not appear to have been either intended or calculated to direct the attention of the jury to the defendant’s neglect to testify.

¶5The objections to the instructions are too refined and tenuous to be of practical importance.

¶6Judgment affirmed.

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