People v. Stanley

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of McDonough County, entered following a hearing, denying defendant’s petition for relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act. Ill.Rev.Stat. 1969, ch. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.

On August 3, 1966, the defendant and his wife, a juvenile, were taken into custody and the defendant was charged with burglary. He was released on bond but his wife remained in custody. On September 15, the defendant, in an unsuccessful attempt to free his wife, threatened a deputy sheriff with a loaded gun at the McDonough County jail and was again arrested and…