People v. Brown

Defendant, James Brown, was convicted of the robbery of Lillian Dubuque after a jury trial in Kankakee County. Sixty-eight-year-old Lillian Dubuque was robbed of $51 in cash and four wristwatches in her home on January 11, 1975. She positively identified James Brown as the robber.

In his appeal defendant presents only one issue for review, whether the trial court improperly and in violation of the defendant’s rights coerced the jury into reaching a verdict by delivering a “Prim-type” deadlock instruction when, according to defendant, there was no indication that the jury was deadlocked or had…