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PEOPLE v. SCOTT

Gen. No. 50,547.

82 Ill. App.2d 109 (1967)

227 N.E.2d 72

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Louis Scott, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

April 6, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender of Cook County, of Chicago (Marshall A. Patner, Frederick F. Cohn and James J. Doherty, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

Daniel P. Ward, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Thomas M. Burnham, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant was found guilty of rape in a nonjury trial and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten to twenty years.

His theory on appeal is that the judgment of conviction should be reversed because the indictment did not specify the nature and elements, or the time and place of the alleged offense; that the State failed to prove the use of force; that the testimony of the complaining witness...

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