PEOPLE v. CARR

No. 56054.

3 Ill. App.3d 227 (1971)

278 N.E.2d 839

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WILLIAM B. CARR, Defendant-Petitioner.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District.

December 21, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Michael Weininger, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel,) and William B. Carr, pro se, for appellant.

Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (John J. Van Zeyl and Michael D. Stevenson, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People.


Petition denied; motion to withdraw allowed.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to four to eight years in the State Penitentiary. Upon hearing the sentence, petitioner punched the Assistant State's Attorney in the nose. The following day the judge sentenced him to six months in the County Jail for direct contempt of court, the sentence to run consecutively with the sentence for armed...

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