People v. Jackson

Defendant, Larry Jackson, was found guilty by a jury of three counts of armed robbery and was sentenced to six to twenty years. Defendant appeals.

Clarence Lester, one of the complaining witnesses, testified that on September 18, 1976, at approximately 1 a.m., he was at a lounge located at 68th and Green Streets in Chicago. Johnnie Mae Drain, a woman acquainted with some people who knew him, asked him to come outside and look at her car, which had just been in an accident. Lester then went with Johnnie Mae and her cousin, Antine Drain, and looked at Johnnie Mae’s car. Afterwards, he and the…