People v. Savage

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ABRAHAMSON

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant, Junior Savage, was tried on a murder charge before the court without a jury. This appeal is from the defendant’s conviction for murder by the Circuit Court of Winnebago County. Defendant has been sentenced by the court to serve a term of not less than thirty nor more than fifty years in the Illinois State Penitentiary.

The evidence discloses that at approximately 12:30 a. m. on October 27, 1966, defendant, a fifty-year-old man, voluntarily walked into the Headquarters of the Winnebago County Sheriff with his…