Ex Parte Allen

FOSTER, Justice.

We agree with the Court of Appeals that the absence from the indictment of the word “knowingly,” in connection with the word willfully is not such a fatal defect as that it will not sustain a conviction, there having been no demurrer to it on that ground. True, there may be a willful act, without knowingly doing a wrong. But there may be an inference that it was “knowingly” done from the fact that it was willful. Peebles v. O’Gara Coal Co., 239 Ill. 370, 88 N.E. 166. Sometimes and for some purposes the words are said to convey the same idea. Schultz v. Henry Ericsson Co., 264…