State v. Loveland

Defendant is presently serving two concurrent maximum indeterminate terms of 5 years’ imprisonment, one for a 1971 burglary conviction, the other for a 1973 conviction for distribution of a controlled substance. Defendant was originally given 2 years’ probation and a stay of imposition of sentence on the burglary conviction, but the stay was vacated and sentence imposed when defendant violated the terms of his probation by committing the drug offense.

The issue on this appeal from the court’s order revoking probation and imposing sentence 1 relates to the fact that parolees are given good time…