People v. Brown

Defendant Richard Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of delivery of less than 200 grams of a controlled substance (amphetamines) and the trial court sentenced him to a term of not less than 18 months nor more than 5 years in the penitentiary. The trial court denied a request for probation.

Defendant in his appeal in this court asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in denying him probation and that we should reduce the sentence to probation or, alternatively, to the time served, or at least reduce the minimum sentence to the minimum sentence provided for by statute.

It appears from…