People v. Camp

Defendant, Richard Owen Camp, was charged by indictment with the offenses of burglary and criminal damage to property; the latter charge was dismissed by the State. Following a trial before a jury in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant was found guilty of burglary (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 19 — 1(a)), and subsequently was sentenced to a term of 12 years.

Defendant now appeals his conviction and sentence, asserting three grounds for reversal: (1) that the trial court’s refusal to give the jury his tendered instruction on voluntary intoxication as a defense deprived him of…