PEOPLE v. JOHNSON

No. 55684.

4 Ill. App.3d 249 (1972)

280 N.E.2d 764

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ISAIAH JOHNSON (Impleaded), Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District.

February 29, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender, of Chicago, (Lee T. Hettinger and James J. Doherty, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel,) for appellant.

Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (Robert A. Novelle and Henry A. Hauser, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant was charged with the murder of one George Shaw. He waived a jury, was tried by the court and was found guilty of murder. He was sentenced to serve fourteen to twenty years in the penitentiary. He was seventeen years of age and had no previous record. The evidence presented by the State disclosed that defendant stabbed the deceased in the leg after the deceased had attacked...

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