People ex rel. Lundblade v. Israel

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Randolph County dismissing relator’s petition for habeas corpus.

An information was filed in the trial court charging relator, Thomas Lundblade, with arson. He pled guilty to that charge and was sentenced to serve 2 to 20 years in the penitentiary.

Subsequently, he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Randolph County, contending the information was invalid for failure to include an essential element of the offense of arson.

The…