PEOPLE v. McCULLUM

No. 48207.

66 Ill.2d 306 (1977)

362 N.E.2d 307

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. HELEN McCULLUM, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Martin Rudman, State's Attorney, of Joliet (James B. Zagel and Robert E. Davy, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Bart Markese, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.

Allan A. Ackerman, of Ackerman, Durkin & Egan, of Chicago (Steven M. Levin, of counsel), for appellee.


Affirmed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The circuit court of Will County found defendant guilty of unlawful possession of over 30 grams of heroin (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 56 1/2, par. 1402(a)(1)). She was sentenced to a term of three to six years in the women's reformatory. The Third District Appellate Court reversed defendant's conviction (33 Ill.App.3d...

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