People v. Sumner

In a prior appeal to this court from a judgment of conviction of the crime of murder, we remanded this case to the trial court, with directions to conduct hearings to determine the existence, availability, producibility, and relevancy of certain pretrial statements of witnesses who testified at the trial. People v. Sumner, 72 Ill App2d 258, 218 NE2d 236 (4th Dist 1966).

The purpose of that remandment was to determine whether or not impeachment evidence existed which should have been given to the defendant for his attorney’s use at the trial. The inquiry was framed upon the issues of whether…