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PEOPLE v. BRACKEN

Gen. No. 50,167.

68 Ill. App.2d 466 (1966)

216 N.E.2d 176

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Bracken (Impleaded), Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

February 10, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence M. Dunagan and Emmet F. Byrne, of Chicago, for appellant.

Daniel P. Ward, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and James B. Klein, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

James Bracken was indicted for murder, was found guilty by a jury and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 25 years.

The defendant was indicted jointly with Roy McGovern, Eugene Avery, Donald Coglan, Phillip Kolep, LeRoy Buick and Dennis Doherty. Buick was not tried because he was found in a pretrial sanity hearing to be mentally incompetent, and Doherty was granted a separate trial. Bracken...

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