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PEOPLE v. YOST

No. 51518.

78 Ill.2d 292 (1980)

399 N.E.2d 1283

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. MARVIN DALE YOST, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bruce W. Black, State's Attorney, of Pekin (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and John X. Breslin and Terry A. Mertel, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Peter A. Carusona, Assistant Defender, of the Office of State Appellate Defender, of Ottawa, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Marvin Yost was found guilty of the murder of his wife after a jury trial in the circuit court of Tazewell County on February 8, 1977, and was sentenced to a term of 18 to 60 years. In his motion for a new trial Yost restated the contention he made at trial that evidence of a prior conviction for felonious assault in 1965 had been improperly admitted to impeach his testimony. The trial...

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