PEOPLE v. QUINTANA

Gen. No. 52,060.

91 Ill. App.2d 95 (1968)

234 N.E.2d 406

People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Luis Quintana, Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

January 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julius Lucius Echeles, and Jo Anne F. Wolfson, of Chicago, for appellant.

John J. Stamos, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Daniel W. Weil, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

In a nonjury trial Luis Quintana was found guilty of possessing marijuana and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years to five years and one day.

The defendant's motion to suppress the evidence was denied and he urges that this was error. He further contends that there was insufficient proof that he possessed marijuana and that he was sentenced under the wrong statute. It is...

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