People v. Battiste

Adam Battiste was convicted by the Circuit Court sitting without a jury of the offense of unlawful use of weapons (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, par. 24—1 (a) (4) ). Defendant appeals here asserting that his timely motion to suppress the evidence was denied; that the proof offered by the State did not conform to its theory of the case; that the arrest of defendant, to which a search was incident, was invalid due to the subsequent declaration by a Federal District Court that the Municipal Ordinance under which defendant was charged was unconstitutional; and that the trial court improperly…