People v. Bailey

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE MoCORMICK

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal taken by William Yernon Bailey, defendant, from a judgment entered in the Criminal Court of Cook County. The judgment was entered on the verdict of the jury finding the defendant guilty of the crime of voluntary manslaughter. By the judgment the defendant was sentenced to a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years in the Illinois State Penitentiary.

In this court the defendant contends that the verdict is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence, * and that the defendant was denied due…