People v. Christerson

Citations

• 59 Ill. 157

Syllabus

<p>1. State’s attobheys—of their right to receive payment of fines, etc., and receipt therefor—construction of act of 1865. Within the power conferred on State’s attorneys by the act of 1865, which makes it their duty to enforce the “collection of all fines, forfeitures and penalties” imposed or incurred iu the courts of record in their several counties, and pay the same over to the school superintendents of the proper counties, is included the right to receive such fines, etc., and give receipts therefor, that shall operate as a full discharge to the party paying the same; and also the right to receive the amount of any judgment that may have been rendered for any such fine, forfeiture and penalty, and execute acquittance therefor.</p> <p>2. Where payment of a judgment, upon a forfeited recognizance, was made to the county treasurer of the county in which the same was rendered, by the direction and consent of the State’s attorney in and for the judicial circuit in which such county was situated, it was held, such payment amounted to a satisfaction of the judgment—was pajunent to the attorney himself. The State’s attorney had the right to order, or agree, that the party should pay the money to any solvent bank, or responsible party, for his use.</p>