People v. Tower

Defendant, who had previously been convicted of three felonies, was permitted to plead guilty to the misdemeanor of unlawful entry to cover three felony counts in an indictment against him. At the time of sentence defense counsel urged that defendant was beyond redemption and, therefore, “ a sentence strictly of a punitive character is the only one that under the circumstances [the] Court may impose, which would be one year in the Penitentiary * * * The court, however, declared that it did not agree with counsel, denied defendant’s motion, and sentenced him to an indeterminate term with the…