PEOPLE v. SUMNER

No. 13150.

40 Ill. App.3d 832 (1976)

354 N.E.2d 18

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BEATRICE SUMNER, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Modified upon denial of rehearing September 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomson, Thomson, Zanoni & Flynn, of Bloomington (Michael J. Flynn and Leon J. Zanoni, of counsel), for appellant.

Paul R. Welch, State's Attorney, of Bloomington (G. Michael Prall, of Illinois State's Attorneys Association, of counsel), for the People.


Conviction affirmed, sentence vacated and cause remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE GREEN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Beatrice Sumner, was charged by indictment in the Circuit Court of McLean County with the offense of obstructing justice on May 29, 1973, at Stanford in that county in that "she did willfully, unlawfully and knowingly with intent to prevent the prosecution of a person, to wit: Jesse Donald Sumner, she knowingly destroyed physical evidence...

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