People v. Laubscher

Docket No. 83518–Agenda 11–May 1998.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. ANTHONY LAUBSCHER, Appellee.

Defendant, Anthony Laubscher, was found guilty by the circuit court of Champaign County of unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated assault following a dispute on the premises of his residence. Defendant appealed from his conviction for unlawful use of a weapon, and the appellate court reversed, concluding that the State failed to prove that at the time defendant possessed the weapon, he was not either “on his land” or in his “fixed place of business” as provided in the exceptions…