People v. Aprile

Defendant was convicted on two counts of an indictment charging violations of the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act. The counts are the same except for the dates of the offense. Paraphrasing, they charge that defendant committed the offense of illegal sale of narcotic drugs in that he did knowingly offer to sell certain narcotic drugs to a special agent of the Illinois Bureau, of Investigation and then did sell him “the nonnarcotic substance or material the same not being authorized by the ‘Uniform Narcotic Drug Act’ in violation of ch. 38, sec. 22 — 3, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969”. The citation of section…