People v. Green

The defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon his plea of guilty to the offense of attempted robbery and from a sentence of not less than 2 nor more than 7 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary. Upon this appeal the defendant urges that the trial court committed error in accepting the defendant’s guilty plea without informing him of the nature of the charge and without substantial compliance with the requirements of Supreme Court Rule 402 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 110A, par. 402). We agree that the record does not establish that which is required by the express language of the Rule…