People v. Hasting

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STENGEL

delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Warren County, defendant William Hastings was convicted of unlawful delivery of from 30 to 500 grams of cannabis and sentenced to a term of 1% to 4% years in prison. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 56½, par. 705(d).) On appeal defendant contends the prosecutor’s comment on his failure to testify violated his right against self-incrimination and deprived him of a fair trial.

At trial the State presented three witnesses. William Trowbridge, an undercover agent of the Multi-County Narcotics…