Case ID: ill-app_198/html/0431-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Thomas Lyons, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 21,624.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed March 28, 1916.
    Statement of the Case.
    Prosecution by the People of the State of Illinois against Thomas Lyons, defendant, for larceny of a five dollar treasury note of the United States. From a judgment against him, defendant brings error.
    Defendant was charged on information with larceny of “one United States of America Treasury Note of the denomination of five dollars of the value of five dollars.” On trial beforé a jury he was found guilty as charged in the information, on the evidence of the prosecuting witness that the property taken from him was “a five dollar bill,” without further evidence specifying its kind or character, or even whether the hill of that denomination was money of the United States or some other country.
    Louis Greenberg and Thomas H. Mercer, for plaintiff in error.
    Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Edward E. Wilson, of counsel.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Labceny, § 35
      
      —when evidence insufficient to sustain charge of larceny of U. S. treasury note. Evidence of prosecuting witness that defendant took “a five dollar bill” from him does not support charge in the information of larceny of “one United States of America Treasury Note of the denomination of five dollars of the value of five dollars”; but there is a failure to prove an essential averment of the declaration.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.