The PEOPLE v. Thomas

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County, denying defendant’s petition for a.hearing under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act. On June 15, 1961, defendant, Charles Thomas, pleaded guilty to two charges of rape and two charges of robbery and was sentenced to a prison term of 35 years on the charges of rape and from one to ten years in the penitentiary on the robbery charges, all sentences to run concurrently. Thereafter defendant appealed to this court and his conviction was affirmed. (27 Ill.2d 331.) He then filed a petition for hearing under the Post-Conviction…