PEOPLE v. TAYLOR

No. 77-384.

368 N.E.2d 699 (1977)

53 Ill. App.3d 241

11 Ill.Dec. 148

PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thaddeus TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

September 29, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Geis, Deputy State Appellate Defender by Andrew Berman, Asst. State Appellate Defender, for defendant-appellant.

Bernard Carey, State's Atty. by Laurence J. Bolon and Myra J. Brown, Asst. State's Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.


DIERINGER, Presiding Justice.

This is an appeal from the circuit court of Cook County. Following a jury trial, defendant, Thaddeus Taylor, was convicted of murder (Ill.Rev.Stat.1975, ch. 38, par. 9-1) and sentenced to 75 to 150 years in the penitentiary. Defendant has appealed contending the testimony of Wallace Davis, to whom defendant allegedly confessed, was unworthy of belief because Davis was a narcotics addict and that the circumstantial evidence introduced...

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