People v. Young

PRESIDING JUSTICE WILSON

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant was found guilty of murder (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1) and was sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment. On appeal he assigns numerous errors to the trial proceedings and contends that (1) the trial court’s admission of testimony about his arrest for an unrelated crime denied him due process; (2) the court erred in ruling that defendant could not testify about a conversation he had with a friend who allegedly told defendant about threats on defendant’s life; (3) the trial court committed…