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PEOPLE v. MORRIS

No. 5-85-0613.

148 Ill. App.3d 471 (1986)

499 N.E.2d 495

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOHN MORRIS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed September 5, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy E. Blue and Daniel M. Kirwan, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Mt. Vernon, for appellant.

Dennis Doyle, State's Attorney, of Waterloo (Kenneth R. Boyle, Stephen E. Norris, and Debra A. Buchman, all of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE KARNS delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, John Morris, was convicted of burglary after a trial by jury in the circuit court of Monroe County. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 19-1(a).) He was sentenced to a six-year term of imprisonment. On appeal, he contends that the State's circumstantial evidence failed to exclude the reasonable probability that the defendant had merely received stolen property, that the trial...

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