Appellate Court of Illinois· 3/5/2008

People v. Larson

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885 N.E.2d 363
379 Ill. App. 3d 642
319 Ill. Dec. 92
2008 Ill. App. LEXIS 189

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holding that “the aggravated-cruelty-to-an-animal statute” was not void for vagueness, in part, because it required defendant’s “specified intent to cause” serious injury or death to a companion animal
holding that, in making a determination as to whether a statute is void for vagueness, common sense should not be suspended, and criminal acts cannot always be defined with absolute precision because of the limits of the English language
stating that “[t]he State is not required to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence,” and “[p]roof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt does not require proof beyond any possibility of doubt”

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Judges: Hutchinson

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