People v. Kessinger

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

On February 19, 1983, defendant, Harold Kessinger, was convicted in the circuit court of Greene County of the offenses of voluntary manslaughter and armed violence predicated on defendant’s commission of the foregoing voluntary manslaughter (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, pars. 9 — 2(a)(1), 33A — 2). Subsequently he was sentenced to concurrent extended-term sentences of 14 and 20 years’ imprisonment,- respectively. On December 12, 1983, defendant filed an amended post-conviction petition in that court seeking relief from those…