Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Aggravated Domestic Battery
Defendant was charged with aggravated battery to a child under age 13 and aggravated domestic battery , alleging that Defendant stabbed a child in the hands and thigh, and with aggravated battery and battery as to the child's grandmother and the child's uncle's girlfriend. Evidence was sufficient to establish that Defendant shared a common dwelling with child and his mother, and that he intended to reside there for at least an indefinite period of time. Conviction vacated as charge related to the child's uncle's girlfriend. (HOLDRIDGE and WRIGHT, concurring.)