(DOWNLOAD) "People v. Patrick" by Supreme Court of Illinois ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People v. Patrick
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 30, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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After a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant, John Lee Patrick, was found guilty of armed robbery and aggravated battery, and was sentenced to concurrent terms of two to five years and one to five years, respectively, in the penitentiary. The case is here upon direct appeal. Mrs. Hattie Floyd testified that at approximately 9 P.M. on January 3, 1968, she was waiting for a bus on the corner of Roosevelt Road and Halsted Street in Chicago on her way home from work. A youth approached, stood looking at her for about two minutes, then struck her on the head with a gun and said, Bitch, I am going to kill you, put the gun to her back and made her walk in front of him approximately two blocks to a three-story apartment building located at 1213 South Peoria Street. They entered the basement of the building and walked upstairs to a vacant, second-floor apartment, where the youth robbed her and ordered her to disrobe. A scuffle ensued, during which she attempted to stab him with a knife she carried, but was herself stabbed several times with her own knife. When the struggle ended, the youth again demanded that she disrobe; he also demanded that she perform an act of oral copulation on him. She removed her clothes, but when she refused to perform the indecent act, he struck her with the gun and knocked her unconscious. She testified that when she regained consciousness she was standing against the wall, fully clothed, although her clothes were on inside out, and the youth was slapping her in the face. He then began to lead her to the basement. As they were walking down the stairs, both fell, police officers arrived, and the youth escaped.