PEOPLE v. VISER

No. 46358.

62 Ill.2d 568 (1975)

343 N.E.2d 903

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. LOUIS EARL VISER et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Ruebner, Deputy Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Elgin (Adam M. Lutynski, First Assistant Defender, and Peter B. Nolte (law student), of counsel), for appellants.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (James B. Zagel, Jayne A. Carr, and George C. Sorensen, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part and remanded; sentence modified.

MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendants, Louis Viser, Sellie Viser, Lloyd Viser, Jim Brown, Carl Neal, Willie Freeman, and Harvey Smith, were indicted for the murder of Hector Jordan and the attempted murder of Harold Smith. The jury found Brown, Neal and Smith not guilty. Louis Viser, Sellie Viser, Lloyd Viser and Willie Freeman were found guilty of murder...

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