People v. Elliott

Defendant-appellant Harold Elliott was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and deviate sexual assault after a jury trial in Madison County and was sentenced to serve concurrent terms of from 10 to 20 years’ imprisonment. On appeal, he contends that he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in that a reasonable doubt existed as to his sanity, that convictions and sentences for two offenses arising from a single course of conduct were improper, and that the sentences are excessive.

Because the defendant does not contest the facts of the incident upon which the prosecution was based, we…