In Re Brown

In a petition for adjudication of wardship filed by the People in the juvenile division of the Cook County circuit court Ronald Brown was charged with aggravated battery in that he “shot a shotgun” at Anthony Calloway, thereby injuring him. The trial judge adjudged Brown delinquent and committed him to the Illinois Department of Corrections. The appellate court reversed (49 Ill. App. 3d 580), finding that the People did not prove that Brown committed the offense prior to his 17 th birthday as required by the Juvenile Court Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 37, par. 701—1 et seq.), and that he…