State v. Hall

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Defendant- Carmen Hall was charged, tried and convicted of delivery of a Schedule II controlled substance, cocaine, contrary to section 204.401(1), The Code, 1973. Pursuant to the statute the trial court sentenced her to confinement in the women’s reformatory for a period not to exceed ten years.

Chapter 295, section 1, Acts 65 G.A., First Session, now section 789A.1, The Code, 1975, defines those instances in which trial court may grant probation in the form of either a deferred judgment or suspended sentence. The statute specifically precludes a grant of probation where…