People v. Pierce

The defendant, Ernest Pierce, was convicted, following a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, of armed robbery, aggravated kidnapping and rape. He was sentenced to concurrent sentences in the penitentiary-on each conviction for not less than 25 nor more than 50 years. The appellate court affirmed (9 Ill. App. 3d 153) and we granted leave to appeal.

There are two questions which the defendant presents on this appeal: first, whether the trial court erred in refusing the jury’s request for a review of the testimony of certain witnesses, and, second, whether the trial court’s refusal…