Illinois Supreme Court March 18, 1965, 38481 (The PEOPLE v. Hamby)

Mr. Justice Underwood

delivered the opinion of the court:

This cause comes here pursuant to writ of error to the then criminal court of Cook County, which entered an order dismissing defendant’s amended petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 38, pars. 826-832) without a plenary hearing.