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PEOPLE v. SIMMONS

No. 44620.

60 Ill.2d 173 (1975)

326 N.E.2d 383

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. GEORGE ELLIS SIMMONS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 24, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Smith, of Loves Park, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Philip G. Reinhard, State's Attorney, of Rockford (James B. Zagel, Jayne Carr, and Thomas Connors, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Daniel Doyle, Assistant State's Attorney, of Rockford, of counsel), for the People.

Vacated and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, George Simmons, was found guilty by a jury in the circuit court of Winnebago County of two charges of murder and sentenced to two concurrent terms of 30 to 60 years in the penitentiary.

Defendant, 16 years of age, was one of several boys living on Rockford's west side, who over a period of approximately a week had engaged in a running dispute with some boys...

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