People v. Fort

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

Bennie Fort was indicted for aggravated battery. One count of the indictment charged him with causing great bodily harm, the other with using a deadly weapon. In a jury trial, he was acquitted on the first count, convicted on the second and sentenced to a term of one to three years in the penitentiary.

He contends that the evidence did not sustain either the charge of aggravated battery or the use of a deadly weapon, that he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that improper argument influenced the jury’s verdict, and…