Illinois Appellate Court Unpublished Opinions: First Series Ill. App.V.312
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1969, ch. 38, par. 22-3.) After a bench trial he v.'as found guilty of the sale of a narcotic drug and sentenced to not less tha.n one year nor more than three years in tne penit3n- tiary . On appeal defendant argues that the conviction was based solely on the testimony of Alonzo Langford, a narcotics addict who v?as also a police informer, and, therefore, his testimony is comple-cely un- trustworthy. The fact that a witness is a narcotics addic-c has a bearing upon his credibility; however, it... does not follow that h.i.s testimony must be disbelieved, especially when corroboraced by other witnesses. (People v. Smith, 41 Ill..2d 158, 161, 242 l\.E.2d 198.) While it is true that habitual users of opium or other nar- cotics often become notorious liars and that a chronic morphino- maniac is often a c:onfirmed liar, the fact that a witness is a narcotics addict bears only upon his credibility. Peopl e v.. Hudson, 106 Ill.App.2d 130, 136, 245 N.E.2d 613; People v. Littlejohn, 130 Ill.App.2d 1064, 1067, 266 N.E.2d 358 (certiorari denied, 404 U.S.
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