People v. Brown

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE JIGANTI

delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant, Carl Tillman, was found guilty of the armed robbery of Cathleen Elam and Louis Crenshaw, the attempted murder of Crenshaw, and the murders of Sidney Holland and Felicia and Luella Edwards. In a concurrent trial without a jury, the trial judge found a similarly charged co-defendant, James C. Brown, guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Holland and the Edwardses, but acquitted him of armed robbery and attempted murder. Brown is not a party to this…