PEOPLE v. COOPER

Gen. No. 50,295.

69 Ill. App.2d 18 (1966)

216 N.E.2d 168

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Oscar Cooper, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

February 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender of Cook County, of Chicago (Marshall A. Patner, James J. Doherty and Frederick F. Cohn, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel) for appellant.

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


MR. JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

Oscar Cooper and Ernest Lee Wiley were indicted for the crime of robbery. Wiley pleaded guilty and was placed on probation; Cooper pleaded not guilty, waived a jury trial, was found guilty and sentenced to from one to eight years in the penitentiary.

This appeal is by Cooper only. He seeks a reversal of his conviction on the sole basis that his identification was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt....

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