People v. Dotson

Miss JUSTICE McGILLICUDDY

delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury found the defendant, Gary Dotson, guilty of rape and aggravated kidnapping in the Circuit Court of Cook County. The defendant was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 25 to 50 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. On appeal the defendant contends that he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; that improper conduct by the prosecutor denied him a fair trial, and that his sentence was excessive.

At trial the complainant, a high-school student, testified that on Saturday, July 9,1977, she was working at a…