People v. Elbus

This is an interlocutory appeal from rulings of the circuit court of Brown County. Defendant Cyril Elbus was charged by complaint with seven counts of failure to provide for sanitary disposal of domestic sewage on real estate owned by him (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 111½, par. 116.306), a misdemeanor (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 111½, par. 116.319). Before the trial began, the judge ruled that the State could not use defendant’s prior testimony in a separate juvenile proceeding as direct evidence. After the jury was impaneled and heard testimony of several witnesses, the trial court suppressed…