People v. Mattox

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant was found guilty at a bench trial of the murder of Harvey Weinstein and sentenced to a term of twenty to thirty years in the penitentiary. On this appeal he maintains that his guilt was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt in that the body alleged to have been that of Harvey Weinstein was not proven to have in fact been his body.

During the early morning of Sunday, September 29, 1963, a motorist driving on the Calumet Expressway observed an automobile afire in a dumping area a few hundred feet from the Expressway near…