United States of America Ex Rel. Harold Lloyd v. Frank J. Pate, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois

MAJOR, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, on December 15, 1965, was convicted of robbery in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and admitted to probation for a period of five years. On March 23, 1967, he was tried before the same Court (a different Judge) without a jury and convicted on a charge of petit theft, a misdemeanor under Illinois law, and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the Illinois House of Correction. On June 5, 1967, after a court hearing, petitioner’s probation on the robbery conviction was revoked, whereupon he was sentenced to three to six years’ imprisonment in…