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Title: People v. Beam
Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
Release Date : January 12, 1979
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 56 KB

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Defendant was charged, in seven separate complaints, with seven violations of subsection (d), the bad check provision, of the deceptive practices statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 17-1(d)). After he pleaded guilty to the seventh charge, defendant moved to dismiss the remaining six complaints. The circuit court of Montgomery County granted defendant's motion and the State appealed each dismissal. The appellate court consolidated the appeals for review and reversed (55 Ill. App.3d 943). We granted defendant leave to appeal. The complaints against defendant, when viewed together, charged that, during a period of 47 days in 1975, he delivered seven checks, totaling $165.16, to different merchants, knowing that the checks would not be paid by the depository bank. The seventh complaint was not brought until after defendant had pleaded not guilty to the first six. Defendant contends that his guilty plea to the seventh complaint barred prosecution of the other six because of the penalty provision of the deceptive practices statute, which states: