People v. West

This is an appeal by the defendant, Clement West, from the orders' entered by the circuit court of Madison County denying defendant’s post-trial motion for a judgment n.o.v. or, in the alternative, for .a new trial, and sentencing the defendant to 6 to 12 years’ imprisonment.

The defendant contends that error occurred in the procedures followed at the hearing on the defendant’s motion to suppress, that the State failed to prove by the preponderance of the evidence that the statement was made voluntarily, and that the minimum sentence imposed upon the defendant must be reduced to 4 years. For…