People v. Jones

This is the second time this appeal is before us. Defendant Ronald Jones was found guilty of armed robbery and attempt murder by a jury in the circuit court of Will County and sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 10 to 20 years and 20 to 40 years respectively. On our first disposition we held there was no error where the indictment was returned against the defendant prior to the order of the juvenile judge permitting the defendant to be prosecuted under criminal law. However, we did find plain error regarding the instructions given the jury on the attempt murder charge. Consequently we…