PEOPLE v. BENNETT

No. 82-353.

120 Ill. App.3d 144 (1983)

457 N.E.2d 986

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EDDIE GORDON BENNETT, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed November 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy E. Blue and Patricia McMeen, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Mt. Vernon, for appellant.

Phillip McQuillan, State's Attorney, of Carlyle (Stephen E. Norris and Frank J. Bieszczat, both of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WELCH delivered the opinion of the court:

On the evening of November 22, 1981, Centralia police officers Jerry Edmonson and Richard Simer followed a car driven by the defendant and occupied by Pamela Atchison from the Motel Centralia to the Plaza Lounge in Centralia. In the lounge's parking lot, they confronted the defendant in his car. He had in his possession a .22-caliber pistol...

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