In re Smolen

This is an appeal from an order appointing Grace De Velasco Administrator of the estate of her deceased grandson, Richard Smolen, Jr. (See Supreme Court Rule 304(b)(1)). The following appears from the record.

Richard Smolen, Sr., the father of the deceased, and Grace De Velasco, the deceased’s maternal grandmother, filed their Petitions for Letters of Administration in the above estate. At the hearing it was learned that Smolen, Sr., (the appellant here) had been convicted of armed robbery in 1952, and released from the penitentiary in 1957. It was also learned that on April 20, 1971, his…