People v. Loyd

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DAVIS

delivered the opinion of the court.

The narrow issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in imposing upon the defendant a sentence of not less than 5 nor more than 15 years in the penitentiary. His codefendant, who was subsequently sentenced by another judge of the same circuit, received a term of not less than five nor more than 10 years.

On August 5, 1968, at about 11:00 p. m., John Sarantou, the operator of the It Liquor Store in Rockford, and his employee, John Dixon, were walking to the parking lot after closing the store. Two men — later identified as…