People v. Jackson

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Michael Jackson, appeals from a trial court order revoking his probation and sentencing him to the penitentiary for a term of two to ten years. His contentions in this court relate to the propriety of his sentence: the sentence should have been concurrent with those he received for other offenses committed during the period of his probation and the maximum penalty should have been fixed at five years.

Jackson was indicted for the offense of aggravated battery (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, par. 12 — 4) in that he…