People v. Cooks

PRESIDING JUSTICE McNAMARA

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial, defendant, Bobby Cooks, was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to natural life imprisonment without possibility of parole. On appeal, he contends that: (1) he was improperly convicted of being accountable for the murder of Michael Thomas where the State’s evidence failed to show that he had any connection with the unknown, unidentified person who killed Thomas by shooting him with a shotgun, and accordingly, defendant claims that he is entitled to a new sentencing hearing since his sentence of natural…