People v. Scott

HODGES, Chief Justice.

Defendant Scott appeals the sentence he received in the trial court. We affirm the judgment in part and reverse it in part.

Defendant entered a plea of guilty to a charge of second-degree murder, and was sentenced to a term in the state penitentiary of not less than twenty years nor more than thirty years. In imposing sentence, the trial court granted defendant credit for 365 days of presentence confinement, but ordered that the credit be applied only against the maximum term of the sentence and not against the minimum term.

The defendant appealed his sentence in…