PEOPLE v. COOKE

Gen. No. 68-121.

117 Ill. App.2d 296 (1969)

254 N.E.2d 293

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ronald Cooke, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

December 5, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Godfrey, of East St. Louis, for appellant.

Robert H. Rice, State's Attorney of St. Clair County, of Belleville (Joseph B. McDonnell, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant, after being tried and found guilty by a jury of the crime of murder, was sentenced to a term of not less than fourteen nor more than twenty years. On appeal from that conviction and sentence, this Court reduced the degree of the offense from murder to voluntary manslaughter, under the authority of Supreme Court Rule 615(b), and remanded the case to the Circuit Court with instructions "to enter a finding of guilty of voluntary manslaughter and...

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