40 Ill. 405
Decided April 15, 1866
Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1866-04-15
Writ of Error to the Recorder’s Oourt of the city of Chicago ; the Hon. Evert Vah Buren, Judge, presiding. This was upon an indictment charging John Jackson with having knowingly received stolen goods, in the city of Chicago, in Cook county, in this State. The defendant was found guilty, and judgment was entered accordingly. He brings the case to this court upon bill of exceptions by a writ of error.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently August 1994
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Decided 1866-04-15
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¶1In this ease the record wholly fails to show that the offense of which the plaintiff in error was found guilty, to wit, knowingly receiving stolen goods, was committed in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois. We must therefore reverse the judgment, and remand the case for another trial.
¶2Judgment reversed.