People v. Strother

Defendant-petitioner Robert L. Strother was convicted in a Cook County circuit court jury trial of the unlawful sale of narcotics and sentenced to life imprisonment. Defendant appealed directly to this court. He subsequently filed a petition pursuant to the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, par. 122—1 et seq.) alleging that the prosecutor had used the perjured testimony of a police informant to obtain defendant’s conviction, basing the perjury contention on that informant’s testimony at a subsequent trial; that petition was dismissed without a hearing, defendant…