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PEOPLE v. PRESTON

No. 50894.

76 Ill.2d 274 (1979)

391 N.E.2d 359

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. HENRY CLAY PRESTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Schmiedel, of Haas, Schmiedel & Taylor, of Chicago, for appellant.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Lee T. Hettinger and Carol A. Kearney, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Henry Clay Preston, was indicted in the circuit court of Cook County for the murder, robbery and armed robbery of George Pope. A jury returned verdicts of guilty of murder and robbery and not guilty of armed robbery, and judgments were entered on the verdicts. The defendant received concurrent sentences of from 75 to 100 years on the murder conviction and from 6 to 8 years...

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