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PEOPLE v. BETTS

No. 78-1042.

78 Ill. App.3d 200 (1979)

397 N.E.2d 106

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CURTIS BETTS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed October 31, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Rotenberg, of Chicago, for appellant.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Marcia B. Orr, Joan S. Cherry, and Christopher Cronson, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment reversed.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

In this prosecution, which was instituted by grand jury indictment, the State found it necessary to amend the indictment several times to properly state the offense which it felt its proof would show. The issue is whether these amendments were permissible under the statute which allows amendments to correct technical and formal defects such as miswriting, misspelling, grammatical...

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