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PEOPLE v. WRIGHT

No. 11339.

131 Ill. App.2d 986 (1971)

267 N.E.2d 757

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LENZY LaVERNE WRIGHT, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

March 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton Zwick, of Defender Project, of Chicago, (Ellis B. Rosenzweig, of counsel,) for appellant.

Basil G. Greanias, State's Attorney, of Decatur, for the People.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by the defendant from a sentence of twelve to twenty years in the penitentiary on his plea of guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He urges in this appeal that on this trial court record he should have been granted probation or in the alternative the minimum sentence should not have exceeded one-third of the maximum...

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