People v. Collins

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STENGEL

delivered the opinion of the court: .

Defendants Paul Collins and Howard McMillan were charged by information with burglary and felony theft. On August 8, 1976, a jury in the Circuit Court of Fulton County found both defendants guilty of burglary only. Collins received a one- to three-year prison sentence, and McMillan was sentenced to a prison term of two and one-half to seven and one-half years.

At trial Beryl Demott, an employee of International Harvester Company in Canton, Illinois, testified that he was near the plant’s main gate at about 1:30 a.m. on November…