The People v. Heard

Plaintiff in error, Frank Heard, was indicted in the circuit court of Peoria county for the crime of robbery. Upon his plea of guilty September 15, 1941, he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of from one to twenty years, and, in accordance with the invalid amendment to section 2 of the Parole Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 38, par. 802,) there was incorporated in the judgment an advisory recommendation that the minimum and maximum terms of his imprisonment be not less than ten nor more than twenty years. Plaintiff in error prosecuted a writ of error, and at the…