PEOPLE v. VALLEY STEEL PRODUCTS CO.

Nos. 49612, 49629, 49630.

71 Ill.2d 408 (1978)

375 N.E.2d 1297

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. VALLEY STEEL PRODUCTS COMPANY et al., Appellees. — THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. J.D. BARTER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY et al., Appellees. — THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. J.D. BARTER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Modified on denial of rehearing May 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and C. Joseph Cavanagh, State's Attorney, of Springfield (Donald B. Mackay and Philip Weber, Assistant Attorneys General, and Wayne Golomb, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.

Robert G. Heckenkamp, of Heckenkamp & Fuiten, of Springfield, and Thomas J. Guilfoil, Jim J. Shoemake, and John W. O'Neil, Jr., of Guilfoil, Symington, Petzall & Shoemake, of St. Louis, for appellees Valley Steel Products Company and Howard Neuman.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and C. Joseph Cavanagh, State's Attorney, of Springfield (Donald B. Mackay, Philip Weber, and Gerri Papushkewych, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for the People.

Jenner & Block, of Chicago, and Hendricks & Watt, of Murphysboro (David W. Watt, Jr., of counsel), for appellees J.D. Barter Construction Company, James Guard, and Robert W. Henley.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (Donald B. Mackay and Philip Weber, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for the People.

Thomas P. Sullivan, Donald R. Harris, Jeffrey D. Colman, Eugene R. Wedoff and Kathleen J. Purcell, of Chicago (Jenner & Block, of counsel), for appellee J.D. Barter Construction Company.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part and remanded. Affirmed in part and reversed in part and remanded. Reversed and remanded.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

In each of these appeals, cause No. 49612, People v. Valley Steel Products Co., and causes No. 49629 and 49630, People v. J.D. Barter Construction Co., the circuit court for Sangamon County dismissed indictments returned by the grand jury on August 27, 1975, which charged the...

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