People v. Maxwell

After a joint bench trial in the circuit court of Livingston County, defendant Stephen G. Maxwell, along with codefendant Joe W. Harvey, was convicted on April 17, 1987, of involuntary manslaughter. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 9—3(a).) The conviction of and subsequent sentence imposed upon Harvey were affirmed by this court. (People v. Harvey (1988), 174 Ill. App. 3d 463, 528 N.E.2d 1053, appeal denied (1988), 123 Ill. 2d 562.) On June 25, 1987, defendant was sentenced to 18 months’ periodic imprisonment. He has appealed and, as did Harvey, he challenges only the sufficiency of the…