PEOPLE v. BOHM

No. 56200.

95 Ill.2d 435 (1983)

448 N.E.2d 175

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. JOHN BOHM, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed February 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Gary L. Spencer, State's Attorney, of Rock Falls (Marcia L. Friedl and Kenneth A. Fedinets, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and John X. Breslin and Kenneth A. Wilhelm, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Stephen H. Omoleki, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

On February 11, 1981, John Bohm was charged by complaint in the circuit court of Whiteside County with theft (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 16-1) and with driving after his license had been revoked (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 95 1/2, par. 6-303). The theft complaint charged that he, on or about February 11, 1981, "knowingly: obtained or exerted unauthorized...

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