The PEOPLE v. Hill

This is an appeal from orders of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing defendant’s petition filed under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1965, chap. 38, pars. 122—1 et seq.) without a plenary hearing and denying his motion for leave to amend.

In a July 11, 1961, bench trial, defendant, MacHenry Hill, was found guilty of robbery and rape and sentenced to 1 to 20 years for the robbery and 1 to 25 years for the rape, the sentences to run concurrently. He requested and received appointed counsel who represented him in a direct appeal to this court. We affirmed the conviction.…