People v. Miller

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRETT

delivered the opinion of the court:

Verdis W. Miller, defendant, was found guilty after a bench trial of the crime of possession of a hypodermic needle. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 22-50.) He was sentenced to a term of 60 days in the House of Correction.

At the motion to suppress and at trial the following evidence was adduced: William Stewart, a Chicago police officer, testified that on April 24, 1974, he was at the Burton House Hotel at 317 South Throop, Chicago, Illinois. At approximately 7 p.m. he observed a man come out of room 330. The man left the…