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PEOPLE v. SPICER

No. 50906.

79 Ill.2d 173 (1979)

402 N.E.2d 169

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. EDWARD SPICER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Clyde L. Kuehn, State's Attorney, of Belleville (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Raymond F. Buckley, Jr., and Keith P. Vanden Dooren, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Mt. Vernon), for the People.

John M. Reid and Rafael Schwimmer, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Mt. Vernon, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Early on the morning of November 15, 1975, Ben Seigel and Emmanuel Ukman were murdered in the course of a robbery at their grocery store in East St. Louis. Police Officer Bruce Moore, who had been summoned to the store, was shot and severely wounded by one of the robbers.

An indictment charging the commission of the crimes was returned by a grand...

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