People v. Cody

The defendant-appellant, Albert Alan Cody, pled guilty to the crime of unlawful possession of more than 25 grams of a substance containing barbital, in violation of section 402(b) of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act (Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 56%, § 1402(b)), after a negotiated plea. Defendant was sentenced to serve 1 to 6 years in the penitentiary concurrent with a sentence which defendant was presently serving, and he now contends that the trial court of Johnson County committed reversible error by failing to determine whether there was a factual basis for his plea prior to entering final…