PEOPLE v. HUGHES

No. 57687.

17 Ill. App.3d 404 (1974)

308 N.E.2d 137

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. REGINALD HUGHES, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (1st Division).

January 28, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey H. Haas and Andrea-Marie Monsees, both of Chicago, and Susan B. Jordan and Donald J. Stang, both of San Francisco, California, for appellant, with assistance by Patricia Handlin and Ralph Hurvitz, both of Chicago.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Kenneth L. Gillis and Thomas A. Mauet, Assistant State's Attorneys, and Nicholas P. Iavarone, Senior Law Student, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE BURKE delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant was found guilty by a jury of the offenses of voluntary manslaughter and murder and was sentenced to a term of fourteen years to fourteen years and a day on the murder charge. No sentence was imposed for voluntary manslaughter. He was acquitted of a charge of aggravated battery.

On the evening of August 13, 1971, the defendant and Michael Winston left the Hughes...

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