State v. Bunch

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

The appellant, charged with grand larceny, pled guilty to committing the reduced offense of petit larceny and received a sentence of not less than two nor more than five years.

*405His petition for suspended sentence was denied by the trial court after all of his Stiller v. State, 516 S.W.2d 617 (Tenn.1974) rights were accorded to him. The trial court reduced the sentence to confinement for eight months, and thereafter if appellant made restitution within three months he would be placed on probation for five years.

The sole issue: Was the denial of probation an abuse of…