City of Chicago v. Adams

In a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, Ollie Adams, was convicted of failure to register a deadly weapon (Chicago Municipal Code, sec. 11.1 — 7). The appellate court reversed (38 Ill. App. 3d 1008), and we allowed the plaintiff’s, city of Chicago’s, leave to appeal.

On February 4, 1975, Officer Victor Vega presented to a judge of the circuit court a complaint for a search warrant which contained the following sworn statement:

“I, Victor Vega, a Chicago police officer had a conversation with John Doe who appears befdre the court today. In this conversation John Doe told…