People v. Park

The defendant, Peppe K. Park, was convicted of one count of possession of “more than 2.5 grams but not more than 10 grams of any substance containing cannabis,” a Class B misdemeanor (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 5614, par. 704(b)). The Appellate Court, Fifth District, reversed because it found that the State had failed to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the substance defendant possessed was cannabis” (49 Ill. App. 3d 40, 43), and we granted the State’s petition for leave to appeal. We affirm.

On April 25, 1974, on the basis of a tip from the Lawrence County sheriff’s office, Lawrenceville…