PEOPLE EX REL. PEDERSEN v. REDNOUR

No. 39143.

34 Ill.2d 227 (1966)

215 N.E.2d 228

THE PEOPLE ex rel. ROBERT A. PEDERSEN, Appellant, v. BERT REDNOUR, Superintendent of the Illinois Security Hospital, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 24, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. EDWARD JONES, of Chicago, for appellant.

WILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, and DANIEL P. WARD, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (FRED G. LEACH, Assistant Attorney General, and ELMER C. KISSANE and JAMES B. KLEIN, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel,) for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by Robert A. Pedersen (herein called relator,) from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

In 1953 relator pleaded guilty to the crime of indecent liberties and was sentenced by the criminal court of Cook County to a term of five to fifteen years...

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