People v. Dye

The defendant, Richard Dye, was indicted for the offense of forgery and tried by jury in the circuit court of McLean County. He was found guilty as charged, and the court imposed a sentence of 2 to 8 years’ imprisonment, to run consecutively to a previously imposed Federal sentence of 5 years, being served by the defendant in the Federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. The defendant appealed, contending that dismissal of the Illinois charges was mandated by the Uniform Agreement on Detainers Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 1003 — 8—9 (hereinafter Uniform Agreement)), and also…