Lansing v. People

Citations

• 57 Ill. 241

Syllabus

<p>Police offices in Ohicago—falsely assuming so to be. Upon the trial of a party charged in the indictment with a violation of a section of the charter of the city of Chicago, in representing himself to be a member of the police force of said city, with a fraudulent design, it appeared thedefendant was deputized by a justice of the peace to serve a capias, and upon arresting the party against whom the writ was issued, in answer to her demand for his authority replied, “I am a police officer”: Held, under the circumstances, the writ being issued and executed in the city, the jury were justified in the inference that the answer was designed and understood to be a representation that he was a police officer “ of the city of Chicago.”</p>