PEOPLE v. KILGORE

No. 46406.

59 Ill.2d 173 (1974)

319 N.E.2d 489

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. LARRY KILGORE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, and Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., and Dennis J. O'Hara, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Edward M. Genson, of Chicago, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

On May 17, 1969, 17-year-old Michael Causher was shot in the head and killed in front of a laundromat at 5056 South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago. For that murder Larry Kilgore, Ricky Smith, Henry Horton and Norvell Ealey were indicted and tried by a jury in the Cook County circuit court. Verdicts of not guilty were directed at the close of defendants' case as to all defendants...

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