The PEOPLE v. Smith

Petitioner, Curtis Smith, filed a pro se petition in the circuit court of Cook County for a hearing under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, chap. 38, art. 122) to review his conviction upon pleas of guilty to indictments charging him with rape, robbery, and assault with intent to commit rape. The trial court sustained the State’s motion to dismiss the petition and the cause is now before us on direct appeal from that dismissal.

Since it is our opinion that this cause be reversed and remanded for a new hearing, the following are the only facts and allegations we need set…