People v. Jackson
| Decision Date | 17 June 1924 |
| Docket Number | No. 15978.,15978. |
| Citation | 144 N.E. 314,312 Ill. 611 |
| Parties | PEOPLE v. JACKSON. |
| Court | Illinois Supreme Court |
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Error to Criminal Court, Cook County; Walter P. Steffen, Judge.
Edward Jackson was convicted of larceny and the receiving of stolen goods, and he brings error.
Reversed and remanded.
Kai P. Hammer, of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.
Edward J. Brundage, Atty. Gen., Robert E. Crowe, State's Atty., of Chicago, and Edward C. Fitch, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Edward E. Wilson and Clyde C. Fisher, both of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.
The indictment on which plaintiff in error stands convicted contains two counts; the first charging larceny of a purse and $69 in money, and the second charging the offense of receiving stolen property, the property involved being the same. There was a trial by jury and the following verdict returned:
‘We, the jury, find the defendant, Edward Jackson, Gilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment.’
A motion in arrest of judgment was made and overruled. Thereupon plaintiff in error was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of years not to exceed the maximum term fixed by statute. He prosecutes this writ of error to review that judgment.
[1][2][3][4] No principle of law is better established than that the verdict of a jury must contain a finding of all the material facts necessary to establish the crime charged. People v. Lee, 237 Ill. 272, 86 N. E. 573;Donovan v. People, 215 Ill. 520, 74 N. E. 772. Where the charge is larceny, the verdict of guilty must find the value of the property stolen (Burke v. People, 148 Ill. 70, 35 N. E. 376;Highland v. People, 1 Scam, 392); and the value of the property received must be found where the charge is receiving stolen property (Thompson v. People, 125 Ill. 256, 17 N. E. 749; Sawyer v. People, 3 Gilm. 53). A general verdict of guilty is not enough, where the place of imprisonment depends upon the value of the property involved. Tobin v. People, 104 Ill. 565. If the indictment had charged larceny from the person (which it did not), then a general verdict of guilty would have been sufficient, because the punishment for that offense is imprisonment in the penitentiary whatever the value of the property stolen. People v. Harris, 302 Ill. 590, 135 N. E. 75. The jury found plaintiff in error guilty of simple larceny or of receiving stolen property, and in either case it was necessary that the value of the property be fixed, so that the court could determine the...
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