People v. Dorris

After bench trial in the circuit court of Champaign County, defendant was convicted of burglary (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 19 — 1), and sentenced to a five-year term of imprisonment. Defendant appeals the denial of his motion to suppress certain of the State’s evidence and his sentence.

We affirm.

The suppression hearing on the evidence in question was held in conjunction with the trial, but only those facts dealing with the propriety of the search will be discussed in detail. On August 7, 1981, at approximately 2:30 a.m., Edna Carson awoke and found an intruder in her house at 1603…