People v. Cooke

Defendant, after being tried and found guilty by a jury of the crime of murder, was sentenced to a term of not less than fourteen nor more than twenty years. On appeal from that conviction and sentence, this Court reduced the degree of the offense from murder to voluntary manslaughter, under the authority of Supreme Court Rule 615(b), and remanded the case to the Circuit Court with instructions “to enter a finding of guilty of voluntary manslaughter and to impose a sentence for that crime appropriate to the facts and circumstances of this cause and to whatever other matters in aggravation or…