PEOPLE v. COLE

No. 80-379.

98 Ill. App.3d 309 (1981)

424 N.E.2d 393

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JAMES D. COLE, SR., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Opinion filed July 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Rice, Stephen Rice, and Richard Aguirre, all of Rice, Durso, Rice & Aguirre, of Belleville, for appellants.

John A. Barra, State's Attorney, of Peoria (John X. Breslin and Terry A. Mertel, both of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.


Judgments reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE BARRY delivered the opinion of the court:

On January 15, 1980, the grand jury of Peoria County returned a three-count indictment against defendants James D. Cole, Sr., and James D. Cole, Jr. Count I of the indictment charged the defendants with the crime of solicitation (to commit murder) in that they requested William Haley, a special agent for the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, to murder attorney Robert H. Jones ...

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