People v. Jones

A Du Page County grand jury indicted the defendant, Barbara Jones, for retail theft and obstructing justice. Following a bench trial, the court convicted Jones of retail theft. The court subsequently denied Jones’ motion for a new trial, and it sentenced her to a term of imprisonment of three years.

Jones contends that the trial court erred in convicting her of retail theft because: (1) the indictment alleged that Jones conveyed a comforter to a merchant in exchange for currency, but the evidence at trial established that Jones received a refund slip, not currency, in exchange for the…