People v. Almo

The defendant, Hubert Almo, appeals from his conviction in the circuit court of Cook County of murder and armed violence and his concurrent sentences of 30 and 20 years, respectively, for those two crimes. The appellate court affirmed the defendant’s conviction and sentence for murder and vacated his conviction and sentence for armed violence (123 Ill. App. 3d 406). We granted the defendant’s petition for leave to appeal to this court (87 Ill. 2d R. 315).

On March 9, 1979, at approximately 9:15 p.m., Rick Bynum, a full-time security guard at the YMCA hotel, was playing cards in the library of…