THE PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 37309.

27 Ill.2d 542 (1963)

190 N.E.2d 303

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. WILLIAM J. WILLIAMS et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, and DANIEL P. WARD, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (FRED G. LEACH and E. MICHAEL O'BRIEN, Assistant Attorneys General, and RUDOLPH L. JANEGA and JAMES R. THOMPSON, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for appellant.

GEORGE M. CRANE, of Chicago, (MORRIS GORDON MEYERS, of counsel,) for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE HOUSE delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an interlocutory appeal, taken by the People, from an order of the criminal court of Cook County quashing a search warrant issued by a judge of the circuit court of Cook County, and suppressing the evidence seized under the warrant. The appeal is authorized by statute, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap. 38, par. 747,) and comes directly...

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