People v. Johnson

PRESIDING JUSTICE McNULTY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Prosecutors charged defendant, Larry Johnson, with violation of probation. The trial court, after taking testimony from a witness when defendant was in the hospital, found him guilty as charged. Defendant appeals from the judgment.

In 1990 the Cook County grand jury returned three indictments charging defendant with delivery on three separate occasions of less than one gram of

"a substance containing a certain controlled substance, to wit: cocaine, in violation of chapter 56½, section 1401 d.” (Emphasis omitted.)

The trial court, in a…