THE PEOPLE v. CASTRO

No. 54915.

1 Ill. App.3d 537 (1971)

274 N.E.2d 839

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

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District.

Rehearing denied October 15, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Howard V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (Robert A. Novelle and Michael J. Goldstein, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE LORENZ delivered the opinion of the court.

A jury found defendant guilty of unlawfully selling a narcotic drug in violation of Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, par. 22-3.1 He was sentenced to a term of ten to twenty years. Defendant appealed directly to the Supreme Court of Illinois pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 603 which provides for direct review of final judgments of circuit courts in cases involving...

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