PEOPLE v. GOSS

No. 85-1936.

146 Ill. App.3d 723 (1986)

497 N.E.2d 357

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LOUIS GOSS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (5th Division).

Opinion filed August 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel S. Miller, of Chicago, for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Joan S. Cherry and Paula M. Carstensen, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed in part and vacated in part.

JUSTICE MURRAY delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial defendant, Louis Goss, was found guilty of unlawful use of weapons and "failure to carry tan armed guard training card" and was sentenced to serve a one-year period of conditional discharge. On appeal defendant contends that he was entitled to the "watchman" exemption to the unlawful-use-of-weapons statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 24...

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