Meeks v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was convicted by a jury of the sale of approximately one ounce of marijuana to a person who turned out to be an undercover agent. He was sentenced by the trial judge to four years in the penitentiary.

This appeal raises the single basic question of whether such a sentence may be voided by the appellate court because it constitutes a denial of the defendant’s right to equal protection of the laws if it is proved that persons pleading not guilty and tried by a jury are shown to regularly receive greater sentences than those who plead guilty after plea…