The People v. Bassinger

Plaintiff in error, Joseph Bassinger, was indicted by the grand jury of St. Clair County at the September term, 1936, on three separate charges of rape. On the three indictments returned plaintiff in error entered pleas of guilty. The causes are brought here on the common-law record which discloses that in each case, before judgment and sentence was rendered, the court fully advised the defendant as to his legal and constitutional rights and the consequences of his pleas of guilty; that plaintiff in error persisted in such pleas and was adjudged guilty of the crime of rape on each of the…