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PEOPLE v. WARD

No. 47479.

63 Ill.2d 437 (1976)

349 N.E.2d 47

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WESLEY WARD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied June 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Reno, Jr., and J. Steven Beckett, of Reno, O'Byrne & Kepley, of Champaign, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Michael M. Mihm, State's Attorney, of Peoria (Jayne A. Carr and Raymond McKoski, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE CREBS delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant was convicted of the offense of obscenity after a bench trial in the circuit court of Peoria County. The court ruled that the defendant, the operator of a book store, had violated section 11-20(a)(1) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 38, par. 11-20(a)(1)) by selling two obscene publications. The defendant was sentenced to spend one day in the county...

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