People v. Love

Following a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, Vussitino Love, was convicted of battery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 12 — 3(a)) and sentenced to a 10-month term of incarceration. The only issue presented on appeal is whether the trial court erred when, at the close of the State’s case in chief, it denied defendant’s motion to dismiss for failure to name him as the assailant in the complaint and it allowed the State to amend the complaint by inserting defendant’s name in the case caption.

No issue is presented concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, and it is…