People v. Crossno

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ALLOY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant appeals from convictions for three counts of murder and one count of aggravated battery. He was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for each of the three counts of murder and to 5 years’ imprisonment for aggravated battery, the sentences to run concurrently. It is undisputed that all of these convictions arose from the same act. People v. King (1977), 66 Ill. 2d 551, 363 N.E.2d 838.

On August 12, 1979, at about 1:30 a.m., 26-year-old Blair Parnham went through a floor-to-ceiling plate glass window at the Nashville…