PEOPLE v. SIMS

No. 82-1415.

124 Ill. App.3d 739 (1984)

464 N.E.2d 1252

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MILDRED SIMS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (2nd Division).

Rehearing denied June 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Jeffrey M. Howard and Frank P. Madea, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael E. Shabat, Jane E. Liechty, and Robert W. Bertucci, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant was charged by information with voluntary manslaughter, by stabbing Walter Sims (deceased) with a knife, without lawful justification, in the unreasonable belief that the circumstances were such that, had they existed, would justify such killing and with armed violence in that, while armed with a knife with a blade over three inches, she committed the felony of voluntary manslaughter...

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