People v. Miller

In a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Cook County the defendant, William Miller, was found guilty of arson, and the court sentenced him to a term of 5 to 12 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary.

The issues for review are whether the admission into evidence of shirt remnants and other material taken from the Cook County Hospital Burn Unit without a warrant was improper and plain error; whether tire court erred in failing to suppress inculpatory statements made by the defendant under the influence of depressant drugs; whether the court erred in refusing to give the defendant’s instruction…