OPINION
WOOD, Acting Chief Judge.
Defendant appeals his jail sentence entered following a plea-bargain agreement. Defendant alleges that the jail sentence, under the circumstances of his case, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article II, § 13 of the New Mexico Constitution, N.M.S.A. 1978 (1981 Cum.Supp.). We construe both of these provisions identically and affirm.
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