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PEOPLE v. WOODS

No. 32871.

2 Ill.2d 240 (1954)

118 N.E.2d 248

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. JOHN A. WOODS, Plaintiff in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 17, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOHN A. WOODS, pro se.

LATHAM CASTLE, Attorney General, of Springfield, and CLIFFORD N. COOLIDGE, State's Attorney, of Bloomington, (WENDELL E. OLIVER, FRED G. LEACH, and ROBERT L. BURNS, of counsel,) for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE MAXWELL delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff in error, John A. Woods, was convicted on his plea of guilty of the crime of murder and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment by the circuit court of McLean County. He now comes to this court by writ of error, pro se, on the common-law record alone, seeking to set aside his conviction for one alleged error: that counsel appointed for him by the court were incompetent...

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