People v. Cannon

On February 6, 1970, at approximately 2:30 P.M., Emanuel Lazar was shot and killed in his toy store located at 1708-10 East 79th Street in Chicago. Five days later defendant was arrested and charged with murder. He was tried before a jury, convicted and sentenced to a term of from 100 to 200 years. Six contentions are raised on appeal: (1) The search of defendant’s home which resulted in recovery of die murder weapon was unlawful, and therefore the gun should have been suppressed as evidence; (2) the court improperly admitted into evidence an inflammatory photograph that had no probative…