People v. Harris

The defendant was charged by information in Stephenson County on March 14, 1979, with the September 14, 1976, armed robbery of an Associates Finance office in Freeport, Illinois. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 18 — 2(a).) At the time the complaint was filed, the defendant was serving a 14-year sentence imposed in Kane County on September 6,1978, for robbery. Following a conviction by a jury, the defendant elected to be sentenced under the new sentencing act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 1005 — 8—1), and was sentenced to the Department of Corrections for the maximum term of 30…