People v. Johnson

The facts of this case are not significantly in dispute. At about 6:40 a.m. on the morning of September 20, 1972, Idell Snowden and her husband William were standing on the comer of Wood and Washington Streets in Chicago, when they were approached by two men, the defendant and one Rickey Warren. Earlier that day Warren and the defendant had discussed pulling a “stick-up.”

Concealing with a newspaper the gun he held in his hand, Warren announced to the Snowdens “This is a stick-up, and don’t you holler.” Mrs. Snowden screamed and Warren shot her husband in the chest, mortally wounding him.…