People v. Brooks

The defendants were convicted in a bench trial of obstructing justice (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 31 — 4) 1 ****and were sentenced to three years probation. Their appeal questions whether false statements to police as to the participation of themselves and others in a felony is an obstruction of justice under the statute; if so, whether the indictment was sufficient, and whether the crime was proved.

The indictments arose from an incident at a Rockford filling station which occurred on October 24,1975. A car with three men and a woman pulled into the station and there was a…