People v. Wallace

This is an appeal by the State from an order granting defendant’s motion to dismiss a criminal complaint for failure to state a cause of action.

The defendants were charged by criminal complaint with violating section 1 of “An Act in relation to the use of an assumed name in the conduct or transaction of business in this State” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 96, par. 4) (hereinafter the Act) by transacting business as Quickway Enterprises without having on file with the County Clerk of Saline County the required certificate to register the ownership of a business operated under an assumed business…