People v. Lutz

In a jury trial in the circuit court of Vermilion County defendant, Thomas Lutz, was convicted of the offense of aggravated battery. The appellate court, with one judge dissenting, reversed (52 Ill. App. 3d 732), and we allowed the People’s petition for leave to appeal. The appellate court held that the indictment failed to charge the offense of aggravated battery and that in denying defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment, the circuit court had erred.

The indictment contained two counts. In count I it was charged that defendant “committed the offense of AGGRAVATED BATTERY, in that he did…