PEOPLE v. SUTTON

Nos. 61418, 77-476.

370 N.E.2d 99 (1977)

54 Ill. App.3d 756

12 Ill.Dec. 476

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John SUTTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

Rehearing Denied December 8, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Carey, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago (Lee T. Hettinger, Michael E. Shabat and Mary Ellen Cagney, Asst. State's Attys., Chicago, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

James Geis, Deputy State Appellate Defender, and Richard J. Geddes, Asst. State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for defendant-appellant.


ROMITI, Justice.

Defendant, John Sutton, was convicted of murder (Ill.Rev.Stat. 1971, ch. 38, par. 9-1), after a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, and was sentenced to a term of 14 years to 14 years and 1 day. The issues for review are, whether defendant was proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, whether he knowingly and intelligently waived a jury and whether he was prejudiced because of incompetency of counsel at trial.

We affirm.

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