People v. Castro

In Indictment No. 68-1305, defendant was charged with a sale of heroin on 1 April 1968 to a police undercover officer in violation of Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, sec. 22 — 3. On 9 July 1969 defendant filed a discovery motion for an order requiring the State, among numerous other things)'to “furnish a list of witnesses that the State may or may not call who were occurrence witnesses at the scene of the alleged offense or who were present at the time of the arrest of the defendant”. This request was simply denied by the trial court on 23 October 1969 without any discussion, while the court…