PEOPLE v. HENSON

No. 5-85-0600.

149 Ill. App.3d 450 (1986)

500 N.E.2d 985

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BETTY HENSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed November 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed, Heller & Mansfield, of Pinckneyville, for appellant.

Alan C. Downey, State's Attorney, of McLeansboro (Kenneth R. Boyle, Stephen E. Norris, and Matthew E. Franklin, all of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE KARNS delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Betty Henson, appeals from her conviction, entered in the circuit court of Hamilton County, of two counts of the felony offense of mutilation of election materials (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 46, par. 29-6).

The testimony introduced during the bench trial revealed the following facts. On October 14, 1982, the defendant, a candidate for the office of County Clerk, and Betty...

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