Graubner v. City of Jacksonville
Cases that cite this one
5 later published cases cite this decision.
- Village of New Athens v. Casperson (Ill. App. Ct. 1916)
- Glucose Refining Co. v. City of Chicago (U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois 1905)
- Knowles v. Village of Wayne City (Ill. App. Ct. 1889)
- Baldwin v. City of Chicago (Ill. 1873)
- Hoyer v. Town of Mascoutah (Ill. 1871)
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Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court:
This case is like that of Kettering v. City of Jacksonville, ante p. 39, except in one particular. Graubner, the appellant, offered to testify, but the court did not permit him to do so. This was error. This court has repeatedly decided that prosecutions of this character were not a criminal proceeding. We have also held, in the case of The People v. Starr, ante p. 52, that the defendant, in a prosecution for bastardy, was a competent witness under our present law, and the same rule must be applied in this case.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
, Judgment reversed.
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