People v. Osborne

PRESIDING JUSTICE WEBBER

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the circuit court of Adams County of two counts of forgery and one count of misdemeanor theft in violation of sections 17 — -3(a)(1) and 16 — 1(a)(1) of the Criminal Code of 1961. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, pars. 17-3(a)(l), 16-l(a)(l).) He was sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment for four years on each forgery count and 364 days on the theft count.

On appeal the principal issue is the trial court’s handling of defendant’s alibi defense. As a derivative of that issue, some discussion is…