State v. Jones

The defendants, husband and wife, were convicted of possession of heroin with intent to deliver, based upon their pleas of guilty to a single count information. The defendants had no prior convictions for any serious offense, and were apparently selling heroin in order to finance their own use of heroin, to which they had been addicted for some time. The trial court sentenced both defendants to ten years in the state penitentiary, even though they demonstrated that they had made substantial rehabilitation efforts since their arrest, and had apparently overcome their heroin addiction.

The…