People v. Tompkins

Defendant pleaded guilty to a violation of a bail bond given on a felony charge of theft of property of a value of over $150 and was sentenced to the penitentiary for an indeterminate term with the minimum fixed at 1 year, the maximum at 3 years. At the time of accepting the plea, the trial court advised defendant of the minimum and maximum penitentiary sentences that could be imposed but did not mention the nonpenitentiary sentences of periodic imprisonment, probation and conditional discharge that were available under the Unified Code of Corrections (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 1001…