People v. Greenfield

Defendant appeals a judgment and sentence of 10 to 30 years imposed by the Circuit Court of Macon County upon a jury verdict of guilty of attempt to commit murder (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 38, pars. 8 — 4 and 9 — 1). Grounds for reversal are alleged to be the State’s failure to prove defendant sane beyond a reasonable doubt, the erroneous exclusion of certain evidence relating to defendant’s sanity, improper closing argument by the prosecution, and excessiveness of sentence.

It is not disputed that on June 28, 1973, the defendant attacked and stabbed his wife several times with a scissors…