People v. Uselding

The defendant, Donald Uselding, was convicted in a jury trial of attempt robbery and sentenced to a term of from two to four years in the penitentiary.

At approximately 9:00 p. m., in January 1967, the complaining witness, Jesse Cummings, left a grocery store on Belmont Avenue in Chicago carrying a bag of groceries and walked toward his car which was parked in front of a restaurant about a block east and across the street. Between the grocery store and the car were elevated tracks crossing Belmont Avenue.

Cummings testified that as he passed under the elevated tracks he observed Uselding, whom…