People v. Hollingsworth

PRESIDING JUSTICE WELCH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial in the circuit court of St. Clair County, the defendant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. In her appeal from that conviction, she presents one issue: that the State’s evidence failed to prove that property was taken from the victim by a threat of the imminent use of force. We affirm.

The principal witness at trial was Mary Wrenn. On May 12, 1982, she was employed as the principal of Cannady Elementary School in East St. Louis. At approximately 1 p.m., she was in her office when…