PEOPLE v. CANADA

Gen. No. 50,344.

81 Ill. App.2d 220 (1967)

225 N.E.2d 639

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lorenzo G. Canada, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Fourth Division.

March 10, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emilie N. Wanderer, of Chicago, for appellant.

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


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ENGLISH delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, the conviction was reversed and remanded for failure of the trial court to instruct the jury on manslaughter. People v. Canada, 26 Ill.2d 491, 187 N.E.2d 243. On September 12, 1963, a second jury found defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter and...

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