People v. Cook

The defendant entered a plea of guilty in the Circuit Court of St. Clair County to an indictment charging him with the crime of murder and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than fifty nor more than seventy-five years. That conviction was thereafter affirmed on appeal. (People v. Cook, 1 Ill.App.3d 292.) He thereafter filed a post-conviction petition which was denied after an evidentiary hearing, and this appeal is from that judgment.

The post-conviction petition alleged that the defendant’s constitutional rights were violated in many respects. Many of the claims therein…