People v. Boyd

On March 6, 1974, the defendant was found guilty in a bench trial of the offense of unlawful use of weapons and on April 1, 1974, was sentenced to 360 days at the State farm at Vandalia. The defendant appeals.

The sole issue presented in this case is whether the defendant’s conviction was void for failure to allege in the complaint that the weapon was either concealed or loaded.

On October 2, 1973, the Rochelle police were alerted by an ISPERN message that a gasoline station had been held up by three or four armed men who fled in a yellow Chrysler station wagon. The police stopped the vehicle,…