PEOPLE v. BURNS

No. 50284.

75 Ill.2d 282 (1979)

388 N.E.2d 394

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. MILTON BURNS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 3, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and C. David Vogel, State's Attorney, of Pontiac (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Robert C. Perry and James G. Condon, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Springfield, of counsel), for appellant.

Curtis W. Myers, of Pontiac, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Milton Burns, filed a petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 122-1 et seq.) alleging violation of his constitutional rights to due process and equal protection of the law in his trial, together with a codefendant, in the circuit court of Livingston County, which resulted in his conviction of armed robbery (Ill. Rev. Stat...

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