PEOPLE EX REL. BLACK v. DUKES

No. 57431.

96 Ill.2d 273 (1983)

449 N.E.2d 856

THE PEOPLE ex rel. BRUCE W. BLACK, State's Attorney, Appellant, v. DENZIL L. DUKES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Edward Orr, of Pekin, for appellant.

Knuppel, Grosboll, Becker & Tice, of Petersburg (Homer J. Tice, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgments vacated; cause dismissed.

JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

The State's Attorney for Tazewell County petitioned the circuit court for that county for a writ of quo warranto holding that it was illegal for the defendant, Denzil L. Dukes, to hold simultaneously the offices of trustee of the South Pekin village board of trustees and member of the South Pekin Grade School board of education. The amended complaint alleged that on...

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