People v. Abernathy

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Clair County dismissing his petition for a post-conviction hearing filed pursuant to the Illinois Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 38, pars. 122—1 through 122—7).

He first contends that defendant’s post-conviction petition raises an issue of constitutional magnitude in that defense counsel’s representation of him was of such quality as to amount to no representation at all.

Defendant claims that one Dixie Beever was a nurse in the hospital in…