People v. Mills

PRESIDING JUSTICE O’MALLEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial, defendant, Angelo Mills, was convicted on February 13, 2003, of Class A misdemeanor theft of labor or services (720 ILCS 5/16 — 3(a) (2000)), pursuant to an incident on February 16, 2001, in which he took his pickup truck from a Maaco repair shop without paying for the repairs performed on it. He timely appeals, arguing that the evidence at trial did not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he had the knowledge required for conviction of theft of labor or services. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

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