People v. Townsend

The defendant was convicted of burglary after a jury trial in Madison County and sentenced, to from 2 to 6 years. The incident arose on the campus of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in the early morning of March 10, 1973.

The State’s evidence showed that defendant and another man were observed near an automobile in a parking lot on the campus by a plainclothes campus police officer, Gerald McGhee. A short time later, the same officer observed them inside the car. The officer contacted his superior, Wayne Schrage, and the two policemen approached the car-. Defendant was asked for…