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PEOPLE v. MURPHY

No. 84-1582.

157 Ill. App.3d 115 (1987)

509 N.E.2d 1323

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JAMES MURPHY, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed June 10, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Marilyn Martin, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellant.

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Thomas V. Gainer, Jr., Joan Disis, and Gail Feiger, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant James Murphy, charged with the murder of Donald Bolden and having conceded that he committed the homicide, pled not guilty by reason of insanity and, alternatively, that the act was committed in self-defense. At trial, the jury heard the contents of a report of defendant's social history prepared by the Cook County Psychiatric Institute shortly after the incident; that report...

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