People v. Humphrey

Defendants Henry Humphrey and Marcus Mize appeal from their convictions of burglary entered after a jury trial. Each defendant was sentenced to a 3-year term of imprisonment.

Originally defendants were indicted along with Louis Howard. Prior to trial, however, Howard’s case was severed because he had made a confession implicating defendants.

At trial Crestón Dennis testified for the State that on August 15,1979, he was in the process of moving into a house he had rented at 5220 Montclair in Peoria Heights. At 1:30 p.m. he locked the house and left to go to work. The electricity had not yet been…