People v. Jensen

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Tazewell County, the defendant, Eric T. Jensen, was found guilty of five counts of felony theft by deception and three counts of misdemeanor theft by deception to which the court subsequently sentenced him to five concurrent terms of four years’ imprisonment. The conviction was premised on a nine-count indictment which charged that between March 23 and April 20, 1981, the defendant knowingly obtained control of money by use of deception, with the intent to deprive the owners permanently of property in violation of section 16—1(b)(1) of the…