THE PEOPLE v. JACKSON

No. 39290.

41 Ill.2d 102 (1968)

242 N.E.2d 160

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ROBERT JACKSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 22, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

GERALD W. GETTY, Public Defender, of Chicago, (SHELVIN SINGER and JAMES J. DOUGHERTY, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel,) for appellant.

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, and JOHN J. STAMOS, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (FRED G. LEACH, Assistant Attorney General, and ELMER C. KISSANE and THEODORE A. SHAPERO, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE SOLFISBURG delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Robert Jackson was convicted of murder along with DeSoto Allen in a joint trial in 1956, and on appeal by Jackson alone this court remanded the cause to the circuit court of Cook County on the issue of the "voluntariness" of the confession. (31 Ill.2d 408.) The circuit court, after a...

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