People v. Brower

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook County revoking defendant’s probation and sentencing him to a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years in the Illinois State Penitentiary. Defendant contends that violation of probation was not proven by a preponderance of the evidence and that the sentence is excessive.

In June of 1967, defendant entered a plea of guilty to the offense of burglary as charged in indictment number 66-3548. Judgment was entered on the plea and defendant was admitted to probation for a period of five years upon the condition that the first…