Justice TULLY delivered the opinion of the court:
Following a bench trial, defendant, Joseph Hornsby, was convicted of first-degree murder in violation of section 9-1(a) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (720 ILCS 5/9-1(a) (West 1992)) and sentenced to a term of 40 years' imprisonment for that crime. It is from the judgment of conviction that defendant now appeals to this court pursuant to section 6 of article VI of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. VI...
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