Illinois Supreme Court September 24, 1968, 41013 (The PEOPLE v. Ferree)

Mr. Justice Kluczynski

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Piatt County dismissing Leland Ferree’s petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, chap. 38, pars. 122—1 et seq.

Petitioner was convicted of burglary and larceny in May 1952, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years to life.