State v. Tesack

This is an appeal by Franklin V. Tesack from an order of the Circuit Court of Hancock County sentencing him to multiple terms in the State penitentiary for felony murder, burglary, attempted robbery, assault during the commission of a felony, and conspiracy. On appeal, he claims that the trial court violated double jeopardy principles by sentencing him for both felony murder and for the felonies underlying the felony-murder. He also claims that the court erred in failing to dismiss the indictment, in denying him an opportunity to enter a plea, in failing to require that the issue in the case…