People v. Wendt

Defendant, Donald D. Wendt, was charged with tax evasion (count I), perjury (count II), willfully failing to file an income tax return for the taxable year 1983 (count III), filing a fraudulent income tax return (count IV), and willfully failing to file an income tax return for the taxable year 1984 (count V) in an information filed in the circuit court of Boone County. (See Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 32 — 2; ch. 120, pars. 5 — 502, 13 — 1301; Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 120, pars. 5— 502, 13 — 1301.) The State proceeded to trial on count V, willfully failing to file an income tax…