The PEOPLE v. Boney

We earlier (People v. Boney, 28 Ill.2d 505) affirmed defendant Fred Boney’s conviction of rape and armed robbery. He thereafter filed in the Cook County circuit court a pro se petition for relief under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act, accompanied by a transcript of the original proceedings. The State’s motion to dismiss this petition was allowed, the trial court believing it insufficient to present any constitutional question, and we are now concerned with defendant’s appeal from that dismissal.

Two contentions are here urged. The first is that the State suppressed evidence at his trial, and…