PEOPLE v. BEAM

No. 50431.

74 Ill.2d 240 (1979)

384 N.E.2d 1315

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JAMES F. BEAM, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Giampoli, Public Defender, of Taylorville, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Kelly D. Long, State's Attorney, of Hillsboro (Donald B. Mackay, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., and Michael B. Weinstein, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant was charged, in seven separate complaints, with seven violations of subsection (d), the "bad check" provision, of the deceptive practices statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 17-1(d)). After he pleaded guilty to the seventh charge, defendant moved to dismiss the remaining six complaints. The circuit court of Montgomery County...

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