FOLEY, Judge.
Defendant pleaded guilty to the crime of illegal possession of narcotics and was given a sentence not to exceed two years' imprisonment. The sole assignment of error is that the sentence constituted excessive, cruel and unusual punishment.
The thrust of defendant's argument is that he, a college student with no previous criminal record, should have been placed on probation or given a more lenient sentence by the trial judge for this nonviolent...
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