People v. Collum

Defendant, Zonnie Collum, appeals his convictions of aggravated battery and criminal damage to property entered by the circuit court of Madison County after a trial by jury. On appeal defendant raises several issues, but in view of our disposition we need only decide whether defendant was entitled to a statutory discharge (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 103 — 5) because of the State’s failure to bring him to trial within 120 days of his being placed in custody.

Defendant was charged by information with aggravated battery and criminal damage to property on June 10, 1980, and taken into…