Appellate Court of Illinois July 13, 1982, No. 80-571 (People v. Queen)

JUSTICE WELCH

delivered the opinion of the court:

On January 4, 1979, Lida Belle King was found dead in her Du-Quoin, Illinois, apartment. The results of an autopsy indicated that she had been strangled. In March of that year, the defendant, Paul S. Queen, was charged by a Perry County indictment with the murder of Mrs. King.