People v. True

Defendant, Richard True, was charged by information with the offense of residential burglary (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 19—3). Defendant was found not guilty by a jury of residential burglary but guilty of the lesser included offense of criminal trespass to residence. Judgment was entered on the criminal trespass to residence verdict, and a sentence of 360 days in the county jail was imposed.

At trial defendant testified that on January 30, 1985, he went to his parents’ house, knowing that they would not be home, to find out whether his father had kept a letter and some photographs of…