The People v. Somerville

Defendants Robert. Somerville, Gail Somerville and Paul Langusch were convicted of armed robbery of Zayre’s Department Store in Oak Lawn in a jury trial in the circuit court of Cook County, and sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary for a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years. Their convictions were affirmed by the appellate court (71 Ill. App. 2d 381), and their petitions for rehearing and leave to appeal to this court were denied.

Defendants then instituted proceedings under the Post-Conviction Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, ch. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.), alleging that they…