Court Opinion

ID: 9714469
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:38:20.356078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:26.316955
License: Public Domain

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE JONES, dissenting. I respectfully dissent. Although it may have been hearsay testimony for the doctor who performed the autopsy to identify the corpse upon the basis of the name tag, evidence regarding the tag was nevertheless admissible to identify the body in question as being the same body that was brought to the Officer Funeral Home in East St. Louis. Once there, positive identification of the body, and the corpus delicti, were furnished by an employee of the funeral home who had been personally acquainted with Ernest Tiller during his lifetime. Further identification of the body was furnished by the circumstance that the wounds found by the doctor performing the autopsy were consistent with the blows struck by defendant as they were described by the occurrence witnesses. See People v. Jennings, 11 Ill.App.3d 132, 296 N.E.2d 19.