People v. Rainey

The plaintiff in error, Willard Rainey, herein called defendant, seeks the reversal of a judgment of the criminal court of Cook County, which upon his plea of guilty found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to 45 years in the penitentiary, said sentence to run consecutively to a sentence of seven years previously imposed on the defendant for the crime of rape.

Appearing pro se, the defendant relies solely upon the common-law record, having filed no bill of exceptions. He asserts that the imposition of cumulative sentences was unauthorized by law and deprived him of rights guaranteed by the…