People v. Schwartz

Defendant, Spencer Schwartz, an attorney, was charged with requesting and partly receiving compensation for placing out a child for adoption in violation of the Adoption Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 4, par. 12 — 5). The circuit court of Cook County granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaints on the ground that section 12 — 1 of the Adoption Act is unconstitutional. The circuit court also found that the complaints in question were “defective and, therefore, void.” A direct appeal to this court was taken pursuant to our Rule 302(a). 58 Ill. 2d R. 302(a).

The basis of the circuit…