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PEOPLE v. GUTHRIE

Gen. No. 11,029.

123 Ill. App.2d 407 (1970)

258 N.E.2d 802

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip K. Guthrie, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

May 21, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prentice H. Marshall, of Urbana, for appellant.

Basil G. Greanias, State's Attorney of Macon County, of Decatur, for appellee.

SMITH, P.J.

The defendant was indicted with his half brother, John A. Weller, for the murder of Howard Richard Goodin, a Decatur barber. When it appeared that Weller had made a statement to the police directly implicating Guthrie in the killing and had asserted that Guthrie told him that he killed the "barber," Guthrie's motion for a severance was granted. Weller was tried and convicted of murder and sentenced 40 to 60 years in the penitentiary. In an opinion filed...

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