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PEOPLE v. NICHOLS

No. 44271.

51 Ill.2d 244 (1972)

281 N.E.2d 873

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. RALPH NICHOLS a/k/a ERNEST RALPH BEASLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

THEODORE A. GOTTFRIED, Illinois Defender Project, Ottawa (BRUCE STRATTON, of counsel), for appellant.

WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General, of Springfield, and JAMES N. DE WULF, State's Attorney, of Rock Island (FRED G. LEACH and THOMAS J. IMMEL, Assistant Attorneys General, and F. STEWART MERDIAN, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.

Reversed and remanded.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

In a 1952 Rock Island County circuit court bench trial petitioner, Ralph Nicholls, also known as Ernest Ralph Beasley, was found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to a term of 50 to 60 years imprisonment.

Petitioner's pro se petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1963, ch. 38, par. 826 et seq.) was dismissed in 1963 on the...

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