People v. Moore

Defendant was convicted of the offense of solicitation to commit murder after a jury trial in the circuit court of Pike County in violation of section 8 — 1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 8 — 1). He was afterwards sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.

The evidence at trial was relatively brief and consisted principally of the testimony of an undercover agent for the criminal investigation division of the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement and certain tapes of conversations which the agent had with the defendant. These tapes were made pursuant to an…