Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Robbery
Defendant and codefendant were convicted, after simultaneous but severed bench trials, of robbery and aggravated battery of a senior citizen. Defendant's two convictions were both based on Defendant's single physical act of punching 65-year-old victim, and thus violate the one-act, one-crime principle. Only the robbery conviction will stand, as it is the more serious of the two offenses, as a Class 1 felony. (NEVILLE and PUCINSKI, concurring.)