People v. Irons

The defendant, Gary Irons, was convicted by a jury in the circuit court of St. Clair County of the unrelated offenses of armed robbery and theft over $150. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of 4 to 12 years for the armed robbery conviction and 2 to 6 years for the theft conviction.

On appeal the defendant urges that his conviction for armed robbery be reversed because out-of-court statements introduced into evidence to impeach a court’s witness were used as substantive evidence of his guilt. He alleges that the theft conviction cannot stand because the State failed to prove ownership of the…