Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane County. Honorable Barry E. Puklin, Judge, Presiding. He received 10 years imprisonment for armed violence and 6 years imprisonment for home invasion. We affirm the judgment as modified. Defendant contends, first, that he was not proved guilty because the State's occurrence witnesses, the victim, and the victim's girlfriend, were unworthy of belief.
Defendant observes that, before the stabbing, the victim had been drinking beer for several hours.
According to defendant, the victim's girlfriend had also been drinking the day of the stabbing. Defendant asserts that the witnesses' drinking habits and alcohol consumption on the day of the offense make their testimony inherently untrustworthy. Defendant notes other infirmities in the testimony. Also, the victim and his girlfriend had a history of domestic violence, including several incidents where the police were called and the victim or his girlfriend soon dropped the charges. They admitted that, shortly before the stabbing, they had an argument of some sort.