PEOPLE v. HUNDLEY

No. 33212.

4 Ill.2d 244 (1954)

122 N.E.2d 568

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. JAMES DEWEY HUNDLEY, Plaintiff in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 18, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McROBERTS & HOBAN, of East St. Louis, for plaintiff in error.

LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, and RICHARD T. CARTER, State's Attorney, of Belleville, (FRED G. LEACH, GEORGE W. SCHWANER, JR., and R.V. GUSTIN, of counsel,) for the People.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE MAXWELL delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a writ of error to the circuit court of St. Clair County wherein defendant, James Dewey Hundley, was convicted by a jury of the crime of murder and sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment. No evidence was offered by defendant, he having elected to stand on his motion for a directed verdict.

The evidence presented to the jury showed that shortly after 1:00 A.M. on...

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