PEOPLE v. DALTON

No. 54762.

91 Ill.2d 22 (1982)

434 N.E.2d 1127

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. CLINT DALTON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and John A. Barra, State's Attorney, of Peoria (Herbert Lee B. Caplan, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Jack Donatelli, and Neal B. Goodfriend, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and John X. Breslin and Gary F. Gnidovec, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Verlin R.F. Meinz and Peter A. Carusona, Assistant Defenders, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

A Peoria County circuit court jury found defendant, Clint Dalton, guilty on two of three counts of indecent liberties with a child, and he was sentenced to two concurrent four-year terms of imprisonment. The appellate court reversed, holding that the State had failed to establish an essential element of the crime: defendant's age. (93...

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