People v. Baldi

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STAMOS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Appellant, Robert Baldi, was charged with failing to register as a real estate salesman, in violation of Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 114½, par. 1. The complaint alleged that he “did # * offer to sell and did negotiate a sale” of a particular parcel of real estate to one Mary Cook without obtaining a certificate of registration from the Illinois Department of Registration and Education. After a bench trial defendant was found guilty and sentenced to one year probation, the first fifteen days to be spent in the County Jail. Defendant…