People v. Bailey

The circuit court of Kane County found the defendant, Willie Lee Bailey, guilty of the offense of theft over $300 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 16 — 1(a)(1)) and sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment. The defendant appeals and raises two assignments of error in this court: (1) that the State failed to prove him guilty of theft over $300 beyond a reasonable doubt; and (2) that he was denied due process of law because the prosecutor improperly interfered with a codefendant’s decision of whether to testify on the defendant’s behalf.

Two codefendants, Allen Woods and Joseph Burton, were…