The PEOPLE v. Myers

Defendant, Jim E. Myers, was convicted in the circuit court of Macon County of deviate sexual assault; his conviction was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the Fourth Judicial District (92 Ill. App. 2d 129), and this court denied leave to appeal. (38 Ill.2d 629.) Defendant’s subsequent amended petition for post-conviction relief (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.) was dismissed on the State’s motion without an evidentiary hearing, and defendant appeals directly to this court. See 43 Ill.2d R. 651(a).

The petition alleges that the State was permitted to call two persons as…