The People v. Schraeberg

Defendant, Irving Schraeberg, was indicted in the circuit court of Rock Island county, with Max Shapiro, for arson. They were tried together, and the jurors being unable to agree on a verdict were discharged. Shapiro subsequently died. Schraeberg thereafter entered a plea of guilty but later sought to withdraw it. The trial court refused to grant him leave to do so and he was sentenced to the penitentiary. This court reversed the judgment and remanded the cause, with directions to allow defendant to withdraw his plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty. (People v. Schraeberg, 340 Ill.…