The PEOPLE v. Shrake

Defendant, Edward Shrake, entered a plea of guilty to a burglary indictment returned against him in the circuit court of Rock Island County and, after a hearing in aggravation and mitigation, was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two to ten years. On this writ of error the single question presented for determination is whether facts disclosed during the hearing in aggravation and mitigation raised such bona fide doubt of defendant’s sanity that it became the duty of the trial court to cause a sanity hearing to be held.

The trial or sentencing of a person charged with a criminal…