PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

No. 46009.

57 Ill.2d 239 (1974)

311 N.E.2d 681

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. OSCAR L. WILLIAMS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 20, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, and Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., and Barry Rand Elden, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Edmund B. Moran, Jr., John M. Kalnins, and John T. Moran, Jr., Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellee.


Affirmed in part; reversed in part.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant, Oscar L. Williams, was found guilty of unlawful use of weapons in violation of section 24-1 of the Criminal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, par. 24-1(a)(2)), of failure to obtain a State firearm owner's identification card in violation of section 2 of the act of 1967 relating to possession...

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