The PEOPLE v. Frank

Defendant, Eddie Frank, was convicted in a 1963 Cook County circuit court bench trial of the sale of narcotics, and sentenced to a term of 12 to 15 years imprisonment. His writ of error with appointed counsel was, in 1964, transferred to the appellate court, which affirmed. (People v. Frank, 51 Ill. App. 2d 251.) There was no petition for leave to appeal to this court from the appellate court affirmance. The present appeal is from the dismissal, without an evidentiary hearing, of a subsequent petition for post-conviction relief. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.

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