People v. McManus

Defendant, Thomas McManus, was convicted of eight counts of theft by deception (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 16 — 1(b)) and one count of attempted theft by deception. The trial court sentenced defendant to two consecutive five-year terms of imprisonment on the theft by deception counts, to run concurrently with a 364-day sentence on the attempted theft by deception count. On appeal, defendant contends as follows: (1) that the evidence was insufficient to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt because it failed to show he intended permanently to deprive the alleged victims of…