People v. Williams

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE BURKE

delivered the opinion of the court:

An indictment was returned against James Williams (hereinafter “defendant,”) Herman Ray Lockett, Andrew V. Prim and Grover C. Thomas, charging them with the commission of three armed robberies, an attempt robbery and a murder. Defendant was found guilty by a jury of the commission of all five crimes and was sentenced to terms of fifty years to one hundred years in the penitentiary on the murder charge and on each of the armed robbery charges, and to a term of five years to ten years in the penitentiary on the attempt robbery…