People v. Ingram

After bench trial defendant, Vernon Ingram, was found guilty of murder (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(a)) and thereafter sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment. He appealed, contending he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; that his conviction for murder should be reduced to voluntary manslaughter (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, pars. 9 — 2(a), (b)), and that the trial court abused its discretion in imposing sentence.

During an argument between defendant and his girlfriend, Amanda Sledge, on the back porch of the home in which they had been living she, according to…