People v. Allen

PRESIDING JUSTICE NASH

delivered the opinion of the court:

After trial by jury defendant, Nathaniel Allen, was convicted of burglary (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 19 — 1) and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. He appeals, contending (1) he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; (2) the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to give both paragraphs of the circumstantial evidence instruction; and (3) he was denied his sixth amendment right to a jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the community.

On the night of September 28, 1983, and the morning of September…