People v. Hines

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ALLOY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant John Alfred Hines appeals from a conviction for attempted murder, armed robbery, and aggravated battery following a jury trial. Defendant was sentenced to from 15 to 25 years in the penitentiary.

The record in the case discloses that Edward Saltzgiver was worldng alone on the evening of July 1,1968, in a Clark service station in Kankakee. He stated that about 1:30 A.M. on July 2, he saw the defendant Hines come over a fence north of the station and that defendant caUed to him by name. Saltzgiver stated that he had known…