People v. Davis

The dispositive issue in this case is whether the trial judge had authority to place *224defendant, who was convicted of armed robbery, on probation.

I —FACTS

Defendant was found guilty by the court sitting without a jury of robbery armed on July 10, 1969. The court placed defendant on probation for a period of three years, the terms of which required defendant to serve the first six months in the Detroit House of Correction and to pay costs of $240 within a year after his sentence was completed and that he pay restitution in the amount of $100 during the first six months after release from Dehoco.…