People v. Meddows

A jury found the defendant, Duane Meddows, guilty of the murder of his father, Cletus Meddows, who died as a result of serious injuries sustained when dynamite exploded beneath him. The victim died on August 27, 1975. After having been found, first, fit and, later, unfit to stand trial, defendant was on February 1, 1977, once again found fit to stand trial. Thereafter the State brought an interlocutory appeal (People v. Meddows (1978), 67 Ill. App. 3d 995, 385 N.E.2d 765, cert, denied (1979), 444 U.S. 950, 62 L. Ed. 2d 320,100 S. Ct. 422), from an order of the trial court suppressing certain…