Appellate Court of Illinois September 9, 1985, No. 84-0350 (People v. Dotson)

PRESIDING JUSTICE BUCKLEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The State appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County discharging the defendant for want of prosecution on charges of theft and forgery. It contends that the trial court erred by ruling that section 103 — 5(a) of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par.