State v. Fellows
This text of 152 Mont. 47 (State v. Fellows) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Montana Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
DECISION
The application of the above-named defendant for a review of the sentence of 10 years, imposed on August 7th, 1968, was fully heard and after a careful consideration of the entire matter it is decided that:
(1) The sentence should be reduced to 3 years.
The reason for the above decision is that with no prior felony convictions said defendant was sentenced to serve the term of 10 years for grand larceny. True, the crime is punishable by not less than 1 nor more than 14 years imprisonment, but for a first offender 10 years appears severe in comparison to others in that category. Further, others involved in the same crime were treated much more leniently.
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