PEOPLE v. MANZELLA

No. 45215.

56 Ill.2d 187 (1973)

306 N.E.2d 16

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. PHILLIP MANZELLA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry H. Busch and Patrick A. Tuite, of Chicago, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, and Kenneth L. Gillis and Mariann Twist, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a direct appeal from the circuit court of Cook County, which, after a jury trial, adjudged the defendant, Phillip Manzella, guilty of the murder of his two sisters-in-law, Colleen Mulcahy and Claudia Daubenspeck, and of the attempted murder of his former wife, Candace Mulcahy Shell. Pursuant to the jury's recommendation, the trial court sentenced the defendant to death for...

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