Judgment reversed.
Mr. JUSTICE SIMKINS delivered the opinion of the court:
On August 4, 1972, defendant, Edward Dean Gilman, was charged by a criminal complaint with violating Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 38, sec. 31-1, which states that a person commits the offense of resisting or obstructing a peace officer when he "knowingly resists or obstructs the performance by one known to the person to be a peace officer of any authorized act within his official capacity...
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