Justice GREIMAN delivered the opinion of the court:
Following a jury trial, defendant, John Rogers, was convicted of heinous battery (Ill.Rev.Stat.1987, ch. 38, par. 12-4.1) and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. On appeal, he contends that grain alcohol is not a caustic substance as required for conviction under the heinous battery statute.
During the early morning hours of April 17, 1988, complainant Veronique Gill was in a room at the Camelot Hotel in...
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