PEOPLE v. WILSON

Gen. No. 52,851.

116 Ill. App.2d 205 (1969)

253 N.E.2d 472

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tony Wilson, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Fourth Division.

October 29, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender of Cook County, of Chicago (Professor James R. Thompson, Northwestern University School of Law, and Theodore A. Gottfried, Paul Bradley, and James J. Doherty, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Joseph Roddy, Special Assistant State's Attorney and Elmer C. Kissane, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE LEIGHTON delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant was charged with burglary. A jury convicted him. He was sentenced to a term of five to ten years.

In the issues presented for review, defendant contends:

1. It was reversible error for the State to comment upon the absence of potential defense witnesses when they were neither related to, nor employed by the accused, and when the accused made no effort to explain their absence;

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