The People v. McCullough

Defendant, Hoble McCullough, pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery in the circuit court of Cook County and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of from six to ten years.

He brings this direct appeal (see 43 Ill.2d R. 302), attacking the constitutionality of the process by which the trial court accepted his guilty plea, and; in the alternative, urges this court to reduce his sentence “because the trial Court failed to properly weigh the facts of defendant’s record which should have been used in mitigation.”

Defendant was indicted on December 15, 1967, for the knife-point robbery of…