Thompson v. the People

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Stephenson County, dismissing appellant’s petition in the nature of a motion for a writ of error coram nobis. Appellant was convicted of the crime of armed robbery in 1943 and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year to life. The criminal case was before this court on writ of error in People v. Thompson, 396 Ill. 175, and the judgment of conviction affirmed. Sentence was pronounced June 21, 1943. The present petition was filed in August, 1945.

It is alleged in the petition that counsel which the court appointed to defend appellant in…