The PEOPLE v. Baze

This is an appeal bjr defendant, Billy Thomas Baze, from the denial of his post-conviction petition by the circuit court of Jersey County after a hearing. The salient issue among the grounds urged for reversal is whether the increased sentence imposed upon defendant on retrial of the same crime violates his constitutional rights.

The sequence of events as related by defendant and uncontested by the State is that defendant was indicted for burglary (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1963, ch. 38, par. 19 — 1,) on September 23, 1963. He pleaded guilty on November 4, 1963, and was sentenced to the Illinois State…