The PEOPLE v. Patterson

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE EBERSPACHER

delivered the opinion of the court:

A trial was held before a jury in January, 1970, which returned a verdict of guilty of the offense of burglary. This appeal is from the judgment entered on that verdict and the sentence therefrom. The court sentenced Freddie Patterson, hereinafter called the defendant, to a term of not less than four nor more than ten years in the Illinois State Penitentiary.

The defendant was arrested by officers of the Alorton Police Department in a bean field in the vicinity of the Grahmann School in Alorton, Illinois, on July 14, 1969, at…