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PEOPLE v. SIMMONS

No. 55625.

93 Ill.2d 94 (1982)

442 N.E.2d 891

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. BILLY SIMMONS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 18, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael B. Weinstein, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Michael E. Shabat, Richard T. Sikes, Jr., and Joel A. Stein, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Cook County (John Lanahan, Assistant Public Defender, of counsel), for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

In the late evening of July 11, 1979, Sharon Hobbs was shot and fatally wounded by the defendant, Billy Simmons, a/k/a James Booker, in a lounge on the near north side of Chicago. The defendant testified that the revolver he had been carrying had been accidentally discharged. He was charged in the circuit court of Cook County in a three-count indictment with murder with intent to kill or do...

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