Ware v. Nottinger

Illinois Supreme Court
Ware v. Nottinger, 35 Ill. 375 (Ill. 1864)
Breese

Ware v. Nottinger

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice Breese

delivered the opinion of the Court:

No agreement that the court should try the issues made up in this cause, appears in the record, except the recital in the order of court, which order appears to have been made after the attorneys for the defendant had withdrawn from the case, which withdrawal took place before the court had disposed of the demurrers.

There is nothing then, in the record, to show that a jury was waived. If not waived, then the defendant’s constitutional right to have a jury to try the issues was invaded. Const, art., 13, § 6. No waiver of a jury, or of submission to the court alone, appears to have been made while the defendant had an attorney in court.

For this irregularity the judgment must be reversed.

Judgment reversed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Charles B. Ware v. John G. Nottinger
Cited By
4 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
X. Practice — trial by court without a jury. The trial of a cause by the court without a jury, where the record does not show that a jury was waived or the case submitted to the court alone, is an invasion of the constitutional right of trial by jury.