PEOPLE v. MATTHEWS

No. 59045.

17 Ill. App.3d 395 (1974)

308 N.E.2d 230

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent-Appellee, v. JAMES B. MATTHEWS, Petitioner-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (5th Division).

Modified opinion upon denial of rehearing March 1, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary H. Palm, of Chicago, for appellant.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Kenneth L. Gillis and Barry Rand Elden, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE DRUCKER delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner appeals from an order denying his post-conviction petition filed pursuant to the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 38, par. 122-1 et seq.) after an evidentiary hearing. On appeal he argues that his Illinois sentence must be deemed concurrent with a previously imposed New Jersey sentence, and that his plea of guilty was involuntary.

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