People v. Dalton

The defendant, Clint Dalton, was indicted on three counts of indecent liberties with a child. Following a jury trial, the defendant was convicted on two of the three counts and was sentenced to two concurrent four-year terms of imprisonment.

Four issues are raised in this appeal: whether the defendant’s convictions must be reversed since his age, an essential element of the offense of indecent liberties with a child, was shown only by an uncorroborated out-of-court statement; whether the trial court erred in overruling the defendant’s objection to the police officer’s testimony regarding the…