People v. Wilson

Following a bench trial in Boone County, the defendant, Timothy Wilson, was convicted of residential burglary and sentenced to serve six years in the Department of Corrections. The appellate court reversed. We reverse the appellate court and reinstate the conviction and sentence.

The rationale on which the appellate court based its reversal was that the conviction in this case was dependent upon an application of the “limited-authority” doctrine to residential burglary. In its ensuing discussion of the doctrine, the appellate court, second district, noted the decisions of the first, third, and…