People v. Skidmore

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Will County which found the defendant, Paul Skidmore, guilty of violating section 1 of “An Act to prohibit the solicitation of legal business” ” ”” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 13, par. 15), which prohibits an individual not a licensed attorney from soliciting legal business for a money fee or other remuneration. The trial court sentenced the defendant to a term of three months imprisonment and further imposed a fine in the sum of $500.

The defendant was tried by a bench trial and the evidence disclosed that a nine-year-old son of Judith…