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PEOPLE v. FOSTER

No. 50462.

76 Ill.2d 365 (1979)

392 N.E.2d 6

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. SIDNEY FOSTER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 29, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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, Iris E. Sholder, and Joseph P. Quirk, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Ellis E. Reid, of Chicago, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury in the circuit court of Cook County convicted the defendant, Sidney Foster, of murder and concealment of a homicidal death in connection with the death of Vivian Patterson. With one judge dissenting, the appellate court reversed and remanded (56 Ill.App.3d 22), holding (1) that the State had failed to prove...

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