People v. Edmonds

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Genevieve Edmonds, defendant-appellant, pled guilty to the charge of voluntary manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Madison County and was sentenced to a minimum of one year and a maximum of ten years in the penitentiary. She now contends that the trial court committed reversible error by failing to determine that there was a factual basis for her plea prior to entering final judgment on her plea as required by Supreme Court Rule 402(c) (Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 110A, par. 402), which provides:

“(c) Determining Factual Basis for Plea.…