PEOPLE v. SWAFFORD

Gen. No. 66-108.

89 Ill. App.2d 176 (1967)

232 N.E.2d 308

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roy Clifford Swafford, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

December 7, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cohn, Cohn & Korein, of East St. Louis (Sandor Korein, of counsel), for appellant.

Robert N. Gandy, State's Attorney of Perry County, of Pinckneyville, for appellee.


MORAN, P.J.

The sole question on this appeal is whether a sentence of not less than fifty or more than seventy-five years in the penitentiary following a plea of guilty to burglary with intent to commit a theft is so excessive that we should reduce the sentence imposed by the trial court, pursuant to the power granted courts of review in Illinois under chapter 38, section 121-9(b)4 of the 1963 Illinois Revised Statutes.

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