People v. Williams

This is an appeal by the defendant from a conviction of deviate sexual assault and of battery in a bench trial and his sentence of 4 to 5 years in the penitentiary to be served consecutively to the sentence he was then serving. The sentence imposed was on the count charging deviate sexual assault and no sentence was imposed on the count charging battery.

In this court the defendant charges (1) that the indictment for deviate sexual assault is void in charging in die disjunctive that the defendant “by force compelled another person” to perform or submit to an act of deviate sexual conduct, (2)…