The People v. Easter

At the November term, 1939, of the circuit court of Franklin County, plaintiff in error, Morgan Easter, was indicted for the crime of armed robbery. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary, in accordance with the statute, for a term of one year to life. He now prosecutes a writ of error to this court.

The writ of error is submitted on what purports to be the common-law record. The errors assigned are: That he was denied due process of law and equal protection of the laws; that the record does not disclose plaintiff in error was represented by counsel, but appeared in his own…