PEOPLE v. GANT

No. 45749.

58 Ill.2d 178 (1974)

317 N.E.2d 564

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. A.J. GANT, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and James R. Burgess, Jr., State's Attorney, of Urbana (James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert James Steigmann, Assistant State's Attorney, and Keith Luymes, John W. Howard, and Genaro Lara (Senior Law Students), of counsel), for appellant.

John F. McNichols, Illinois Defender Project, of Springfield (Bruce L. Herr, Staff Attorney, of counsel), for appellee.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

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

A.J. Gant was charged by the Champaign County grand jury in a six-count indictment with attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery, burglary, and two counts of armed violence. The trial court struck count I, charging attempted murder, count IV, charging burglary, and count V, charging armed violence. A jury...

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