People v. Falkner

Following a jury trial in the circuit court of Kane County on three counts of murder, defendant was convicted of the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 9 — 2) and was sentenced to a 10-year term of imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. On appeal, defendant claims that the trial court erred in: (1) instructing the jury, over defendant’s objection, as to the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter where defendant had predicated his defense on the jury’s receiving no such compromise verdict; and (2) admitting evidence of the deceased’s…