People v. Deatherage

PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER

delivered the opinion of the court:

Together with Danny Cabage, the defendant, Gary Deatherage, was indicted for the unlawful delivery of less than 30 grams of a substance containing cocaine. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 56½, par. 1401(b).) The defendant was tried separately before a jury and convicted as charged. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.

The State’s case was based on an accountability theory. On appeal, the defendant contends: (1) that he was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because the State’s evidence of his accountability was entirely…