People v. Adams

The defendant was convicted at a bench trial of armed robbery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 18 — 2.). On appeal he raises for the first time the contention that since the indictment speaks in terms of a taking of United States currency from the “person and presence” of the victim, while the evidence showed only such a taking from the “presence” of the victim, the conviction cannot stand.

The relevant facts are as follows. Estelle Echols, a State witness, testified that on February 13, 1974, she was washing windows on the second floor of an apartment building on South State Street in…