PEOPLE v. WISSLEAD

No. 55818.

94 Ill.2d 190 (1983)

446 N.E.2d 512

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. SCOTT A. WISSLEAD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield (Herbert Lee Caplan, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., and Daniel M. Harris, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Daniel P. Nagan, of Bisbee & Nagan, of Macomb, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

On April 1, 1981, the defendant, Scott A. Wisslead, was charged with committing the offense of unlawful restraint (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 10-3(a)) and the offense of armed violence (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 33A-2) based on the underlying felony of unlawful restraint. The criminal information alleged that on March 31, 1981, Wisslead, while armed with a revolver, detained...

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