PEOPLE v. KEYES

Gen. No. 52,781.

117 Ill. App.2d 471 (1969)

253 N.E.2d 539

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert T. Keyes, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

December 15, 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, Theodore A. Gottfried and James J. Doherty, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

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


MR. JUSTICE BURMAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, Robert T. Keyes, has appealed his conviction for murder, after a trial by a jury, for which sentence was fixed at fourteen to twenty years in the penitentiary. He contends that the giving of a flight instruction in the absence of flight was error and that the court committed error by convening without a court clerk being present during a portion...

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