The PEOPLE v. Cullotta

Defendant, Frank J. Cullotta, was tried by a jury in the circuit court of Du Page County and convicted of burglarizing a television shop in the village of Bensenville. The Appellate Court affirmed the judgment, (48 Ill. App. 2d 180,) and we have granted defendant’s petition for leave to appeal to review his contention that he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The television shop in question was located in an outlying shopping center, and was adjacent to an “all-night” laundromat with which it shared a common wall. While on a routine patrol about 4:30 A.M., police officers…