People v. Perry

Mr. JUSTICE THOMAS J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to sever a civil hearing from a related criminal trial.

Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308(a) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110A, par. 308(a)) the trial court certified that the matter involved a question of law on which there are substantial grounds for differences of opinion and that an immediate appeal would materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation. The certified question: Does the scheduling of the hearing “of a civil nature…