The PEOPLE v. Parks

In a bench trial in the circuit court of Du Page County, defendant James Stephen Parks was found guilty of the crime of obtaining dangerous drugs by fraud and sentenced to the State Farm at Vandalia for a term of one year. He raises several constitutional questions on this direct appeal from that judgment.

Bernard Lisitza is a pharmacist and owner of a prescription pharmacy in Itasca. About 8:30 P.M. on September 15, 1967, while he was waiting on a customer, Lisitza’s wife accepted a telephone call. She told him it was a doctor who wanted to give him a prescription and he told her to have the…