The PEOPLE v. King

The petitioner, Joseph Daniel King, was convicted of burglary by a jury in January, 1964, in the circuit court of Crawford County and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 7 to 14 years. On November 11, 1965, the petitioner filed a petition pro se under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, chap. 38, par. 122—1 et seq.) claiming violations of his constitutional rights. The trial court without conducting any hearing denied the petition and King appealed to this court. We deem that the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded for the appointment of counsel to…