PEOPLE v. BARTALL

No. 56658.

98 Ill.2d 294 (1983)

456 N.E.2d 59

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. KURT BARTALL, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied December 2, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan and Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorneys General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael B. Weinstein, Assistant Attorney General, Michael E. Shabat, Joel A. Stein, Rhoda W. Davis, and Kevin Sweeney, Assistant State's Attorneys, all of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Edward J. Egan, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellee.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

In the early morning hours of December 30, 1979, the defendant, Kurt Bartall, fired two shots from his automobile as it traveled along Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. One of these shots killed a young woman who was standing in an adjacent parking lot. In a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County the defendant was...

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