THE PEOPLE v. PETRUSO

No. 39771.

35 Ill.2d 578 (1966)

221 N.E.2d 276

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. DOMINICK PETRUSO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 14, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOHN W. NIELSEN, of Rockford, appointed by the court, for appellant.

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, and WILLIAM R. NASH, State's Attorney, of Rockford, (FRED G. LEACH, Assistant Attorney General, and ALFRED W. COWAN, JR., Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel,) for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE SOLFISBURG delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Dominick Petruso, was tried in the circuit court of Winnebago County and convicted of rape. He has appealed and contends, as he did in a pretrial motion to dismiss the charge, that he was denied his constitutional and statutory rights to a preliminary hearing, that the grand jury which indicted him was illegally selected and drawn and that the indictment was defective...

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