The PEOPLE v. Moone

Upon motion of the People, the circuit court of St. Clair County dismissed a post-conviction petition filed by Alvin W. Moone, and he has appealed to this court.

Moone was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than 15 nor more than 25 years upon his plea of guilty to a charge of burglary. His post-conviction petition raises questions going to the integrity of that plea. Substantially the same questions were raised upon appeal from the judgment of conviction to the Appellate Court for the Fifth District (58 Ill. App. 2d 139), but the defendant’s appointed attorney was…