People v. White

PRESIDING JUSTICE EGAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Louis White, was convicted by a jury of the first-degree murder of Maurice Polk in a White Castle restaurant parking lot in Chicago on May 25, 1988. He was sentenced to 60 years’ imprisonment. No issue is made of the sufficiency of the evidence.

Elijah Rice was at the White Castle parking lot in the car of his brother James at 1:30 a.m. Also in the car were James, Tracey Dan-forth and Maurice Polk. Friends of Elijah’s, Ray Allen and Glenn Polk, the decedent’s brother, were in another car parked near the drive-thru in the…