People v. Bensley

A petition was filed in the Circuit Court of Coles County alleging the defendant to be a sexually dangerous person. After a jury trial a verdict was returned finding the defendant to be sexually dangerous and he was thereupon committed to the custody of the Director of the Department of Public Safety as a sexually dangerous person. This appeal is from that proceeding.

The defendant, in the only brief filed in this court, designated as “Abstract, Statement, Brief and Argument,” asserts that the verdict of the jury was against the manifest weight of the evidence and that the trial court erred in…