People v. Gunn

PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, James H. Gunn, Jr., was charged by information with the offense of theft by deception of property exceeding the value of $150. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 16 — 1(b).) The information specifically stated:

“*** James Henry Gunn, Jr. on the 24-27 day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty at and within said County of Rock Island in the State of Illinois aforesaid# committed the offense of THEFT BY DECEPTION, in that the said defendant knowingly obtained, by deception, control over…