People v. Boras

PRESIDING JUSTICE BUCKLEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

In this appeal the State assigns error to a ruling of the circuit court of Cook County which dismissed the charge set forth in a traffic citation issued to defendant for lack of specificity. Defendant has not filed a brief in response to this assertion; however, we may consider the issue raised by the State under the principles set forth in First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. (1976), 63 Ill. 2d 128, 345 N.E.2d 493.

The record shows that at 4:15 a.m. on January 3, 1986, Chicago police officer Franklin Johnson…