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PEOPLE v. SANFORD

Gen. No. 52,047.

100 Ill. App.2d 101 (1968)

241 N.E.2d 485

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles Sanford, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

October 3, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender of Cook County, of Chicago (Theodore A. Gottfried and James J. Doherty, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

John J. Stamos, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Edward Stasukaitis, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant, Charles Sanford, was convicted by a jury of the offenses of murder and arson. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for concurrent terms of not less than fifty nor more than seventy-five years.

He contends that the State committed reversible error in commenting in its closing argument on his failure to produce alibi witnesses and in turning over a police report to his counsel in...

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