People v. Dodge

Plaintiff in error, Oliver Dodge, was convicted in the circuit court of Peoria County at the September term, 1933, for the crime of murder and was sentenced, on a plea of guilty, to 150 years in the penitentiary. He now seeks a review of that conviction by writ of error, pro se, on the common-law record alone.

The plaintiff in error assigns as errors that, (1) the indictment was insufficient to charge him with the crime of murder; (2) the court failed to enter a finding and verdict prior to the sentence; (3) the sentence was vague and indefinite; and (4) the record fails to show a waiver of…