People v. Edwards

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

After a trial by jury in the circuit court of Edgar County, defendant, Brandon Edwards, was convicted on June 2, 1981, of the offenses of attempt murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He was subsequently given a single indeterminate sentence of 5 to 35 years’ imprisonment. He appeals asserting: (1) The attempt murder charge was barred by the statute of limitations (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 3 — 5(b)); (2) the trial judge’s refusal to recuse himself from hearing defendant’s motion for substitution of judge voided further…