Legal Opinion
The People v. Fiddler
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided March 24, 1970No. 41878PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Schaefer
A jury in the circuit court of Cook County found the defendant, Morris Fiddler, guilty of the murder of Jayne Levin and he was sentenced to a term of 20 to 30 years in the penitentiary. The Appellate Court, First District, affirmed (102 Ill. App. 2d 319), and we granted leave to appeal.
The facts are fully stated in the appellate court opinion and we restate them here only as they pertain to the single issue before us. At the trial the only direct evidence offered by the prosecution as to the cause of death was a certified copy of the coroner’s certificate of death issued by the county clerk.…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Dowdell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- People v. LoveIllinois Supreme Court · 1923
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3Cited by20 opinions
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