People v. Ray

We allowed the petition of the State’s Attorney of Will County for leave to appeal from the appellate court’s reversal of the judgment of conviction against the defendant, Harold Ray, on the charge of having unlawfully possessed burglary tools. (3 Ill. App. 3d 517.) The only question presented on the appeal is whether the appellate court was correct in holding there was error in the trial court’s denial of the defendant’s pretrial motion that the State’s Attorney be prohibited from attempting to impeach the defendant’s testimony, should he take the stand, by the use of a prior 27-year-old…