Case ID: ill-app_195/html/0399-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

City of Chicago, Defendant in Error, v. Louis Kohn, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 20,681.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Evidence, § 10
      
      —when judicial notice not taken of ordinances. On a writ of error bringing up for review a judgment of conviction rendered by the Municipal Court of Chicago on a complaint charging the violation of an ordinance, where the stenographic report merely gives the number of the ordinance alleged to have been violated and does not set it out, the Appellate Court cannot review the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to "sustain the judgment'.
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edmund K. Jarecki, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in this court at the October term, 1914.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed December 6, 1915.
    Statement of the Case.
    Prosecution by the City of Chicago against Louis Kohn, defendant, in the Municipal Court of Chicago, for a breach of the peace. To reverse a judgment of conviction and sentence of a fine of one hundred dollars, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.
    William E. Cloves, for plaintiff in error.
    Johh W. Beckwith and A. J. W. Appell, for defendant in error.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the court.