PEOPLE v. TAYLOR

No. 14918.

68 Ill. App.3d 680 (1979)

386 N.E.2d 159

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIAM OTIS TAYLOR, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed February 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Wilson and Jeffrey D. Foust, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, and James Gold, law student, for appellant.

Thomas J. Difanis, State's Attorney, of Urbana (Robert C. Perry and Robert J. Biderman, both of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE REARDON delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, William Otis Taylor, was charged by information with escape from the Champaign County jail on August 5, 1977. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 31-6.) Following a jury trial, defendant was found guilty and, thereafter, sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 to 6 years. This sentence was to run consecutively to defendant's other sentences for four previous convictions...

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