People v. Ecoma Banks

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE STENGEL

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal involves five felony-theft convictions on charges arising out of the sale of stolen motorcycles to undercover agents who were conducting a covert fencing operation in Joliet during the summer of 1977. After jury trials ended with guilty verdicts against defendants in other cases originating with the same investigation (see People v. Banks (3d Dist., 1979), 70 Ill. App. 3d 51, 389 N.E.2d 174, and People v. Banks (3d Dist., 1979), 70 Ill. App. 3d 1045, 389 N.E.2d 177), defendants elected to stipulate to the facts…