People v. Lambert

This is an appeal by the defendant Alan Lambert from the circuit court of McDonough County which after trial by jury found him guilty of the offenses of burglary and theft and imposed a sentence of not less than 3 nor more than 9 years in the penitentiary on the burglary offense. The theft conviction was vacated.

During defendant’s trial Marvin Farrell, age 16, testified that he went with the defendant and another individual, Joe Lathrop, to the Rural Equipment office in Macomb in the early morning hours of September 20, 1976. At the defendant’s direction he (Farrell) broke a window in the…