PEOPLE v. TENNANT

No. 48066.

65 Ill.2d 401 (1976)

358 N.E.2d 1116

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WILLIAM TENNANT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 15, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Judith A. Stewart and John Thomas Moran, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Zagel and Jayne A. Carr, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Laurence J. Bolon and Eugene J. Rudnik, Jr., Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, William Tennant, was convicted of murder in a jury trial and sentenced to a term of 15 to 30 years imprisonment. A divided First District Appellate Court affirmed (32 Ill.App.3d 1034), and we allowed leave to appeal.

Officer Eugene Earl of the Chicago police department testified that he and his partner received a radio...

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