Williams v. State

I concur in this opinion but write to emphasize that I would not consider the abstract in this case to be flagrantly deficient under Supreme Court Rule 4-2 merely because the judgment and commitment order for Houston Williams was erroneously described. Furthermore, even if the judgment and commitment order had not been abstracted, I would not consider the abstract to be fatal to this appeal.

The abstract in the Houston Williams brief contains the jury verdict and the sentencing by the trial court. Neither the judgment nor sentence is at issue in this appeal. This situation is unlike the civil…