People v. Turner

This is an appeal by the defendant, Johnnie Turner, from the judgments of conviction entered by the circuit court of St. Clair County after a bench trial on two counts of aggravated incest and the concurrent terms of 5 to 15 years imposed thereunder.

The defendant first contends that he was denied a fair trial because the trial court actively solicited and considered irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence. We find no merit in this contention.

The trial judge’s “active solicitation” consisted of asking one of the prosecution’s witnesses to repeat her answer to a question interposed by…