People v. Hopping

We have consolidated three cases in which leave to appeal was granted from three appellate court judgments which are in conflict as to whether the conviction of one who has entered a plea of guilty to a misdemeanor must be set aside because no verbatim transcript of the proceedings upon the entry of the guilty plea is available.

In No. 46529, the defendant, Larry Hopping, was charged with supplying liquor to minors in violation of the Dram Shop Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 43, par. 131). On October 16, 1972, he appeared pro se in the circuit court of Knox County and entered a plea of guilty.…