People v. Wright

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SMITH

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by the defendant from a sentence of twelve to twenty years in the penitentiary on his plea of guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He urges in this appeal that on this trial court record he should have been granted probation or in the alternative the minimum sentence should not have exceeded one-third of the maximum. He urges us to do one or the other. On this record neither avenue is properly open to us.

The defendant was indicted for murder and the public defender was appointed to represent him. Subsequently the…