People v. Edmonds

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, in this appeal from an order granting the State’s motion to dismiss his petition for post-conviction relief, contends he was improperly denied an evidentiary hearing.

Defendant was tried and convicted of rape in 1974. At trial, the complainant testified that at approximately 11:50 a.m. on October 18, 1971, she was walking back for her seventh grade school classes after having been home for lunch. She heard a rapping sound and saw a man, whom she identified as defendant, standing in the window of a house at 6500…