People v. Gulley

Plaintiff in error, L. B. Gulley, prosecutes this writ of error to review the judgment of the city court of East St. Louis, sentencing him to the penitentiary for a term of one year to life for the crime of burglary and larceny. He contends that the maximum duration of the sentence was in excess of that which should properly have been assessed against him and that the attorney who represented him was incompetent. Appearing in this court pro se, he presents only the common-law record.

It is disclosed by the record that plaintiff in error was arraigned on April 18, 1949, and entered a plea of…