People v. Hagen

The defendant, Daniel Hagen, was charged with burglary. A jury found him guilty of that crime and the court sentenced him to four to 12 years. Defendant contends on appeal that there was a fatal variance between the indictment and the proof adduced; that certain physical evidence was improperly introduced into evidence; that improper evidence of other crimes was admitted into evidence; and that the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to quash the arrest and to suppress evidence.

On February 2, 1976, at about 7 p.m. Officer Donald Shetler of the Lincolnwood Police Department was…