PEOPLE v. McGRATH

Gen. No. 50,883.

80 Ill. App.2d 229 (1967)

224 N.E.2d 660

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sherman McGrath, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

March 2, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen S. Pierce and Morris Goldman, of Chicago, for appellant.

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


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a conviction after a bench trial for contributing to the sexual delinquency of a child. Defendant was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail and fined one hundred dollars ($100).

Defendant contends that the magistrate considered incompetent and prejudicial evidence; that the magistrate assumed the role of an advocate rather than that of an impartial trier of the...

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