People v. Pickett

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant was convicted upon his negotiated plea of guilty of the offense of deviate sexual assault. A sentence of four years probation conditioned upon one year in the Illinois State Penitentiary was imposed. Defendant was then an inmate in the Illinois State Penitentiary and the one-year sentence imposed as a condition for probation was made to be concurrent with the sentence then being served.

The defendant urges that the indictment was void in that it did not adequately specify the criminal act alleged to have been…