People v. Hill

Petitioner, MacHenry Hill, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing his amended petition filed under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, pars. 122 — 1 et seq.) without an evidentiary hearing. His principal contention is that a full hearing should have been afforded because his petition contained allegations of fact sufficient to raise a substantial constitutional question within the purview of the statute.

The present appeal is the third of a series growing out of petitioner’s original conviction of the.crimes of robbery and rape in a…