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        "text": "Mr. JUSTICE DIXON\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nOn November 19, 1971 the defendant, Paul Brakebill, pled guilty to a charge of Deceptive Practice, in the Circuit Court of Fulton County and was sentenced to a term of not less than one year at the Illinois State Penal Farm.\nThe information charged the defendant with negotiating a ten dollar check to Day and Palin, knowing that such check would not be honored. Defendant contends that the information is fatally defective because it does not specify the person or persons who have been defrauded by the defendant in that the designation, \u201cDay and Palin\u201d does not qualify as \u201canother\u201d as that term is used in Sec. 17 \u2014 1(d) of the Criminal Code of 1961. Ill. Rev. Stat. (1971) ch. 38, Sec. 17 \u2014 1(d).\nThe early English decisions required great particularity in the description of persons and required an allegation, in cases of a corporation or other legal entity capable of owning property, that such owner was a corporation, or such facts as would show that such entity could own property by the name used. This was the .law of Illinois. (People v. Cohen, 352 Ill. 380, 382.) Annotation: 88 A.L.R. 485.\nIn People v. Tenen (1971), 132 Ill.App.2d 786, 270 N.E.2d 179, the court held that a complaint in deceptive practice must recite the identity of the victim or injured party and held that \u201cSully House Fine Furniture Store\u201d was not a sufficient identification of the injured party. The court relied on People v. Hill (1966), 68 Ill.App.2d 369, where the victim was identified as \u201cCommunity Discount Store\u201d and the court held the complaint fatally defective stating, \u201cIf the Community Discount Store was a corporation its corporate existence should have been alleged * * *. If the store was not an entity capable of owning property, the ownership should have been alleged in the individual or individuals who owned the property.\u201d\nIf a criminal complaint is not sufficient to charge an offense it can be challenged at any time and if need be, for the first time in a court of review. People v. Dzielski, 130 Ill.App.2d 581, 264 N.E.2d 426; People v. Moats, 8 Ill.App.3d 944, 291 N.E.2d 285.\nIn view of the foregoing, it becomes unnecessary to consider defendant\u2019s other contentions and we reverse the judgment.\nReversed.\nSTOUDER, P. J., and ALLOY, J\u201e concur.",
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul Brakebill, Defendant-Appellant.\n(No. 72-48;\nThird District\nFebruary 9, 1973.\nBruce Stratton, of Defender Project, of Ottawa, for appellant.\nRobert Downs, State\u2019s Attorney, of Lewistown, for the People."
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