PEOPLE v. RAHN

No. 46409.

59 Ill.2d 302 (1974)

319 N.E.2d 787

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. DON OWEN RAHN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. McNichols and Richard J. Wilson, Deputy Defenders, J. Daniel Stewart, Assistant Appellate Defender, and Bruce Stratton, Administrative Director, Office of State Appellate Defender, all of Springfield, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Walter F. Farrand, State's Attorney, of Virginia (James B. Zagel and John Patrick Healy, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

On April 21, 1971, a grand jury indicted the defendant, Don Owen Rahn, and two co-defendants for the crime of arson. The defendant was 16 years of age at the time the alleged offense was committed on March 8, 1971. He was arrested on March 12, 1971, and on that day statements were taken from him and his co-defendants. No delinquency petition concerning the defendant was ever filed...

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