People v. Smice

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ABRAHAMSON

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant, Ronald Smice, was charged with the offense of battery in violation of section 12-3 of the Criminal Code (Ill Rev Stats 1965, c 38, § 12-3); found guilty by a jury at the conclusion of his trial, and sentenced by the trial court to the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia for six months. Smice appealed from that decision on the grounds that the verdict was improper; that the trial court improperly denied his petition for probation, and that the sentence imposed was excessive, cruel and extremely unusual. We considered…