People v. Diesel

JUSTICE THOMAS J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court.

This matter is transferred to this court upon the order of the Supreme Court.

Defendant, Fred W. Diesel, after a bench trial was convicted of gambling and was fined $25 and costs.

The charge grew out of an incident which occurred on May 6, 1969, when Police Officers May and Molitor, of the Crystal Lake Police Department, entered Christopher’s Lounge in Crystal Lake, Illinois. According to the testimony of the officers, they discovered six men sitting at a round, wooden table; each was observed to be holding cards in his hands. United…