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- Title: People v. Elam
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 14, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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The defendant, Andrew Elam, was convicted in the circuit court of Cook County of the offense of armed robbery after trial
by the court, and was sentenced to not less than 5 nor more than 15 years in the State Penitentiary. About 11:00 P.M. on December 27, 1968, James McGarrity, a bus driver employed by the Chicago Transit Authority, was traveling
east on 59th Street in Chicago when he stopped at Racine Avenue, where a man and woman boarded his bus. The woman paid her
fare and took a seat immediately behind the driver. The man, however, remained standing next to the driver, and continued
to fumble through his pockets. Finally, he dropped his hand behind McGarrity's back and said: "This is a small gun but it
will blow your back out." He demanded money, and McGarrity gave him some folded currency from his shirt pocket. The man then
stepped down on the step by the door to the bus, faced McGarrity and, with his hands still in his pockets, ordered McGarrity
to open the bus door. McGarrity complied and let the man off the bus at a point about fifty feet from the regular stop at
Halsted Street. The man then walked westerly along 59th Street ÃĒ€” the direction from which the bus had come.