People v. DeTienne

On March 29, 1968, defendant, Carl DeTienne, in a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Rock Island County, was convicted of several offenses, including conspiracy, theft and forgery, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for concurrent terms of not less than 4 nor more than 25 years. On September 23, 1968, an appeal of his conviction was dismissed for failure to file a record with this court. Subsequently, the defendant filed a petition in the circuit court under the provisions of the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 38, § 122 — 1 et seq.), contending that…