The People v. Fuhs

Plaintiff in error, John Fuhs, was, in September, 1936, indicted by the grand jury of St. Clair county on three separate charges of rape. Three indictments were returned, and on each of said indictments the plaintiff in error entered a plea of guilty. No bill of exceptions is filed in said causes. The record 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 such plea of guilty,” but the plaintiff in error persisted in his plea of guilty, and was adjudged guilty of the…