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  "name": "People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Steve Wojdas, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Wojdas",
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  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 42,379",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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      "cite": "309 Ill. App. 382",
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      "People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Steve Wojdas, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McSurely\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis cause has already been before us, and the proceedings are stated in a prior opinion. (309 Ill. App. 382.)\nThe defendant was convicted of the crime of pandering ; he filed a motion praying that the conviction be set aside, asserting that the attorney who represented him at the trial was physically incapacitated at the time so that defendant did not have a fair trial. We held that the allegations of fact in the motion should have been traversed by the People and we remanded the cause for that purpose.\nPursuant to our opinion the People filed answer to defendant\u2019s petition and the issue thus made was whether the attorney who represented him at the trial was physically and mentally incapacitated to do so at the time. There was some evidence in support of defendant\u2019s petition, and convincing evidence to the contrary introduced by the People.\nThe trial judge held that the evidence did not sustain defendant\u2019s petition that the lawyer who represented him at the trial was physically, mentally, or in any way incompetent to take care of his client\u2019s interest, and denied the prayer of the petition.\nIt is unnecessary to detail all of the evidence, for the testimony of Judge Daly, the trial judge, is convincing. Judge Daly said he knew Wojdas\u2019 attorney intimately; that in the trial of the case against defendant he did not notice anything peculiar about his conduct on the trial; that his mental condition was apparently good; that his demeanor was apparently the same as it had been during the 17 or 18 years that the judge had known him; that he properly represented his client, Wojdas, and that he cross-examined the complaining witness and the police officers ably and vigorously. In the light of this evidence the court, in passing on defendant\u2019s motion, properly found that there was nothing in the conduct of defendant\u2019s attorney at the trial that prejudiced his client in any way.\nFor the reasons indicated the judgment is affirmed.\nAffirmed.\nMatchbtt, P. J., and O\u2019Connor, J., concur.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice McSurely"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Smietanka, Conlon & Nowak, of Chicago, for appellant ; Joseph G. Smietanka and George H. Morton, both of Chicago, of counsel.",
      "Thomas J. Courtney, State\u2019s Attorney, for appellee; Edward E. Wilson, John T. Gallagher and Melvin S. Rembe, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "People of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Steve Wojdas, Appellant.\nGen. No. 42,379.\nOpinion filed May 10, 1943.\nSmietanka, Conlon & Nowak, of Chicago, for appellant ; Joseph G. Smietanka and George H. Morton, both of Chicago, of counsel.\nThomas J. Courtney, State\u2019s Attorney, for appellee; Edward E. Wilson, John T. Gallagher and Melvin S. Rembe, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel."
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