The People v. Hudson

In a 1961 jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, defendant, David Hudson, was found guilty of rape and robbery and sentenced to 65 years in the penitentiary. He brings direct appeal claiming that his constitutional rights were violated by the trial court’s erroneous admission of his confessions into evidence, by the State’s withholding of evidence favorable to his defense and by the court’s undue restriction of one of his attorney’s participation in the trial.

The rape and robbery occurred at about 4:00 A.M., September 13, i960, when an intruder entered the window of the complainant’s…