The PEOPLE v. Bracy

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County, denying defendant’s petition for a hearing under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act. The defendant, William Bracy, was indicted for armed robbery. He was represented by privately retained counsel and pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight to twenty years in the penitentiary. He then filed a petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, chap. 38, par. 122 — 1 et seq.) alleging that he was an indigent and that his constitutional right to due process was violated by the State’s refusal to furnish him…