People v. Davis

The defendant, Rondell Davis, was convicted of the October 17, 1977, robbery of a Morris, Illinois, Pizza Hut following a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Grundy County. He was sentenced to a 10-year determinate prison term.

On appeal the defendant has raised three issues which he has phrased as follows:(1) Whether evidence of the defendant’s prior burglary conviction was erroneously admitted as impeachment evidence without weighing its probative value against its prejudicial impact and on the basis of the trial judge’s mistaken belief he had no discretion but to admit it as a “recent”…