Bothwell v. Brown

Citations

• 51 Ill. 234

Syllabus

<p>1. Compounding a felony—what constitutes. Where a person who is charged with larceny, pays money to the person from whom the property was stolen, upon an agreement that the latter would not prosecute for the larceny, that would be compounding a felony, and would, of itself, constitute a crime indictable and punishable as such.</p> <p>2. Consideration—what is sufficient. Where a person who is charged with the crime of larceny, pays money to the person from whom the property was stolen, for the purpose of reimbursing the latter for the expenses he had incurred in searching for the property, and the circumstances tended to show that the party paying the money was guilty of the charge, the purpose of making the payment was a sufficient consideration to support the agreement under which the payment was made, and the money could not be recovered back.</p>