People v. Thomas

PRESIDING JUSTICE LINN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Henry Lee Thomas, was convicted of murder on June 4, 1981, and sentenced to 40 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 9—1(a)(1).) On appeal, defendant’s conviction was reversed and the case was remanded for a new trial. (People v. Thomas (1984), 123 Ill. App. 3d 857, 463 N.E.2d 832.) Prior to the retrial, defendant filed a motion for discharge pursuant to the speedy-trial provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. (111. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 103 — 5(a).) The…