People v. Lovelace

Defendant, Lynn Lovelace, was charged by indictment with three counts of aggravated battery. Subsequently, defendant was also charged, by information, with two counts of resisting a peace officer.

One of the aggravated battery counts charged that defendant, in committing a battery, without legal justification, knowingly caused great bodily harm to the victim in violation of section 12 — 4(a) of the aggravated battery statute. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 38, par. 12 — 4(a) (now codified, as amended, at 720 ILCS 5/12 — 4(a) (West 1992)).) The other two aggravated battery counts each charged that…