PEOPLE v. WATSON

No. 11996.

26 Ill. App.3d 1081 (1975)

325 N.E.2d 629

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RICHARD WATSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

April 3, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. McNichols and Theodore A. Gottfried, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, for appellant.

Robert J. Bier, State's Attorney, of Quincy (Michael Prall, of Illinois State's Attorneys Association, of counsel), for the People.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SIMKINS delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Richard Watson, appeals from his conviction following a jury trial of the offense of obscenity and from a sentence imposed of $600. Defendant raises three issues before this court: (1) Whether defendant was entrapped into selling the allegedly obscene materials; (2) Whether the Illinois obscenity statute is unconstitutional in failing to include "utterly without any redeeming...

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