Rich v. People

Citations

• 66 Ill. 513

Syllabus

<p>1. Bastakdy—judgment of imprisonment. The defendant in a prosecution under the bastardy act, was surrendered by his bail in open court, and upon trial was found guilty of the charge, whereupon the court rendered judgment against him to be paid in installments, the judgment concluding, that he should “give good and sufficient bond herein, with security to be approved by this court, conditioned and made payable as by the statute in such case is made and provided, and that he be committed to the common jail” of the county, there to be confined until he should give such bond or be otherwise discharged: Held, that the judgment, in form,was a substantial compliance with the statute, and proper.</p> <p>2. Constitutional law—imprisonment. The constitutional provision relating to imprisonment for debt, has reference only to debts arising ex contractu. It has no reference to torts or to a proceeding under the bastardy act, although the same is a civil, as distinguishable from a criminal prosecution.</p>