MR. JUSTICE BURKE delivered the opinion of the court.
The trial of Benjamin Wheeler and John McCaskill on a charge of aggravated battery resulted in a verdict of acquittal of McCaskill and conviction of Wheeler. Wheeler appeals from the judgment sentencing him to serve a term in the penitentiary of seven to ten years.
On April 2, 1968, at about 10:00 p.m., Emmett Boyd, an off-duty police officer, was in the vicinity of 58th Street and Calumet Avenue in Chicago...
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