Fuller v. People

Citations

• 92 Ill. 182

Syllabus

<p>1. Indictment—possession of obscene picture. A count in, an indictment charging that the defendant, on, etc., unlawfully did have in his possession a certain obscene and indecent drawing, is sufficiently certain, and good, without describing in what the obscenity consists. So in respect to an indecent picture.</p> <p>2. Same—sufficiency of indictment. A count in an indictment which substantially follows the language of the statute creating the offence charged, is sufficiently certain.</p> <p>3. Constitutional law—expressing subject in title. The general purpose of the constitutional provision that no act shall embrace more than one subject, which must be expressed in the title, is accomplished when a law has but one general object, which is fairly indicated by its title.</p> <p>4. Same—title of act in respect to obscene pictures. The title of the act “for the suppression of the trade in and circulation of obscene literature, illustrations, advertisements, and articles of indecent or immoral use,” etc., is broad enough to embrace a section making it criminal for a person to have in his possession any obscene and indecent picture or drawing. '</p> <p>5. The title to the Criminal Code of 1874, “An act to revise- the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence,” is not liable to any constitutional objection by reason of its generality.</p>