People v. Mooney

Mr. JUSTICE THOMAS J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant entered a plea of guilty to burglary .and was sentenced to a term of 4 to 8 years in the penitentiary. Thereafter, he appealed to this Court and the conviction was affirmed. People v. Mooney (1971), 132 Ill.App.2d 852, 271 N.E.2d 369.

Fifteen days from the rendering of our opinion, the defendant filed a pro se petition in the trial court under the Post Conviction Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 38, sec. 122 — 1 et seq.) The petition claimed that certain of his constitutional rights had been violated and prayed:

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