PEOPLE v. PALMER

No. 59703.

104 Ill.2d 340 (1984)

472 N.E.2d 795

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. JOSEPH PALMER et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Frank P. Madea, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel, and Barton T. Evins, law student), for appellants.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Mark L. Rotert, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Michael E. Shabat, Joan S. Cherry and Jane E. Liechty, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed and remanded.

JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Joseph Palmer was charged by information in Cook County with the felony offense of unlawful use of weapons under the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, pars. 24-1(a)(10), 24-1(b)). The information alleged that defendant committed the offense of unlawful use of weapons within five years of his release from the penitentiary for the felony offense of murder. Defendant...

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