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PEOPLE v. EVANS

No. 32282.

412 Ill. 616 (1952)

107 N.E.2d 839

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, v. CHARLES EVANS, Plaintiff in Error.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 17, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

REX CARR, of East St. Louis, for plaintiff in error.

IVAN A. ELLIOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, and RICHARD T. CARTER, State's Attorney, of Belleville, (WILLIAM C. WINES, of Chicago, and HARRY L. PATE, of Tuscola, of counsel,) for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE DAILY delivered the opinion of the court:

By this writ of error we are asked to review an order of the circuit court of St. Clair County which dismissed a petition filed on September 18, 1950, by Charles Evans, plaintiff in error, wherein he sought relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 38, pars. 826-832,) asserting that he had been deprived of various constitutional rights in a proceeding...

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