People v. Pote

Pursuant to Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 110A, par. 604, the State appeals from a pre-trial order suppressing certain statements given to an Asst. State’s Attorney by defendant whHe a hospital patient.

The sole reason stated by the trial judge in support of his ruling was that no one in the hospital had given the Asst. State’s Attorney permission to see defendant. This being a patently insufficient reason in law, defendant, on appeal, seeks affirmance on other grounds which we shaH consider in detail.

Defendant’s theory in this court is that the statements were involuntary and made while defendant…