People v. Moore

The defendant was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to serve concurrent terms of imprisonment of not less than 20 nor more than 50 years for murder and not less than 20 nor more than 40 years for rape.

In this appeal he raises the following contentions: (1) his oral statement given to the Winnebago County police was the fruit of an illegal arrest and should have been suppressed; (2) that the State used inadmissible hearsay testimony to rebut his alibi testimony; (3) that the trial court committed reversible error in allowing the State to introduce evidence which suggested the…