People v. Biggs

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is to review a sentence of not less than twelve nor more than thirty years imposed upon the defendant upon his plea of guilty for the crime of armed robbery.

The defendant and another, one Grigsby, committed an armed robbery of the National Food Store in Jacksonville, Illinois, in August of 1965. According to the defendant’s statement at the hearing in mitigation, his accomplice actually entered the store, while armed, and committed the robbery. The defendant remained outside in the car and drove the vehicle in an…