People v. Coe

After a bench trial, defendant-was convicted of rape (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 11 — 1) and acquitted of armed robbery. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 18 — 2.) He was sentenced to a term of four years to four years and a day on the rape conviction. This appeal raises the following two issues: (1) Whether reasonable doubt exists where the trial court’s findings in a two count indictment are so logically inconsistent that they are against the manifest weight of the evidence; and (2) whether the defendant was denied due process as a result of prejudicial information independently…