People v. Hoskins

This is an appeal by the defendant Hoskins from two forgery convictions following his pleas of guilty in the Circuit Court of Peoria County. The defendant was sentenced to concurrent terms of not less than two nor more than six years of imprisonment.

A brief but we believe adequate resume of the events which resulted in this appeal is as follows. In 1975 the defendant was convicted for the offense of burglary and sentenced to a term of probation. In this burglary prosecution an assistant state’s attorney, Arthur Inman, appeared for the State in a pretrial discovery motion and at the time of…