Noe v. People

Citations

• 39 Ill. 96

Syllabus

<p>1. Indictment—laying the venue. Where the second count of an indictment charged: “And the grand jurors aforesaid chosen, selected and sworn in and for the county of-, aforesaid.” Held, that the venue was sufficiently laid, the term “ aforesaid ” referring with sufficient certainty to the county named in the first count.</p> <p>2. Cbiminal LAW—disturbing a neighborhood or family in the night time. The intent and design of the one hundred and twelfth section of the Criminal Code is to protect all persons from unlawful annoyances in their abodes at night; and a woman, occupying her dwelling alone, is as much under such protection as if surrounded by children or friends.</p> <p>3. In such case, an unlawful disturbance of her in the night time would be strictly a disturbance of her “ neighborhood,” and would be a disturbance of her family, in the sense in which this term is used in the statute.</p>