People ex rel. Baykowski v. Brantley

Appellant was indicted for murder, and was sentenced in 1966 to a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary after a jury verdict finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Associate Judge Dorothy Spomer presided over the proceedings and pronounced sentence. Appellant filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in Randolph County, the county in which he was being held. The petition was denied after argument. The petition was, and the appeal is, based on an alleged lack of jurisdiction in the trial court.

Appellant claims that Judge Spomer did not, under Chapter 37, Section 626, Ill. Rev.…