People v. Davis

Docket No. 99363–Agenda 9–September 2005.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WAYNE A. DAVIS, Appellant.

Opinion filed December 15, 2005.

The defendant, Wayne A. Davis, was charged in an indictment with first degree murder. He was subsequently convicted by a jury of the lesser-included offense of involuntary manslaughter, a Class 3 felony. See 720 ILCS 5/9–3(d)(1) (West 2000). At sentencing, the circuit court of Kane County found that the victim, defendant’s son, was a “family or household member” as defined in section 112A–3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (725 ILCS…