People v. Wilson

The defendant was indicted for the offense of gambling (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, par. 28—1(a)(8)), and after a bench trial was found guilty and sentenced to the House of Correction for ninety days. In this appeal the defendant contends that the indictment under which she was tried lacked the necessary certainty to charge an offense and was therefore void, and that the trial judge, when imposing sentence upon her, considered matters in aggravation that were improper and prejudicial.

We affirm.

On July 6, 1970, Officer William Mitchell of the Chicago Police Department was assigned to execute…