The PEOPLE v. Davis

John Davis was jointly tried with two co-defendants in the circuit court of Cook County, and convicted of the sale and dispensing of narcotics. Davis and co-defendant Pearlie Hines were tried by a jury; James Smith was tried by the court in the same proceeding. The conviction of Hines was affirmed by this court on appeal. (People v. Hines, 30 Ill.2d 152.) Davis now appeals directly to this court from his conviction, alleging constitutional errors (see our Rule 603, 43 Ill.2d R. 603) ; the direct appeal has been consolidated with Davis’s appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook…