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PEOPLE v. WARD

No. 81-563.

112 Ill. App.3d 547 (1983)

445 N.E.2d 883

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JAMES H. WARD, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed February 9, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Yuhas and Diana N. Cherry, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, for appellant.

John Baricevic, State's Attorney, of Belleville (Stephen E. Norris and Robert C. Cook, both of State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE KARNS delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, James Ward, was convicted of murder of a four-year-old boy after a jury trial in the circuit of St. Clair County and sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment. He appeals, contending that the trial court improperly refused his tendered instructions on involuntary manslaughter and improperly excluded evidence of prior child abuse on the part of the deceased's mother, Harriet Young...

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