PEOPLE v. DAVIS

Gen. No. 51,494.

94 Ill. App.2d 86 (1968)

236 N.E.2d 423

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leonard L. Davis, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

April 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender of Cook County, of Chicago (Herbert Becker, Norman W. Fishman, and James J. Doherty, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

John J. Stamos, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Richard A. Rinella, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.


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

About 2:00 p.m. on October 7, 1965, four men entered the Carson Pirie Scott & Company store at 71st Street and Cicero Avenue in Bedford Park. After looking around to see if anyone was watching each man took an armful of coats from the merchandise racks on the first floor and walked out the door. The supervisor of the store detectives, who was sitting in an upstairs lookout 15 feet from the coats...

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