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PEOPLE v. TRIPLETT

Gen. No. 65-125.

66 Ill. App.2d 237 (1965)

213 N.E.2d 290

The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Willard LaVerne Triplett, Plaintiff in Error.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Rehearing denied January 21, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomson, Thomson & Mirza, of Bloomington (Jerome Mirza, of counsel), for plaintiff in error.

William G. Clark, Attorney General, of Springfield (William R. Nash, State's Attorney, of Rockford, Fred G. Leach, Assistant Attorney General, and John W. Nielsen, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant, whom a Winnebago County jury found guilty of the murder of his brother, Donald Edward Triplett, sued out a writ of error in the Supreme Court to review the original judgment of conviction whereunder he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He had abandoned a prior writ of error in that court, apparently in favor of a post-conviction proceeding in the trial court. Defendant's 1961 petition under the Post...

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