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PEOPLE v. KING

No. 42197.

54 Ill.2d 291 (1973)

296 N.E.2d 731

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ZELMA L. KING, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 21, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

FREDERICK F. COHN, of Chicago, for appellant.

WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, and EDWARD V. HANRAHAN, State's Attorney, of Chicago (JAMES B. ZAGEL, Assistant Attorney General, and ELMER C. KISSANE and ROBERT C. SAMKO, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Affirmed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury in the circuit court of Cook County found the defendant, Zelma L. King, guilty of three murders, and recommended a death sentence, which was imposed. On this appeal he contends that his procedural rights were violated in numerous respects, and that the judgment must therefore be reversed.

At the time of the killings, in May of 1967, the defendant, who was 25 years...

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