Roberts v. Lowry

128 S.E. 746, 160 Ga. 494, 1925 Ga. LEXIS 192

Opinions

Hines, J.

1. Where a person placed on probation violates any of the rules prescribed by the court for his conduct, the probation officer may, at any time prior to the final disposition of the probationer’s ease, while in his custody, without warrant, bring him before the court, or the court may issue a warrant directing that he be arrested and brought before it; and the court, after due examination, may revoke its leave to the probationer to serve his sentence outside the confines of the chain-gang, jail, or other place of detention. Acts 1913, pp. 112, 114; Park’s Penal Code, § 1081(d); Olson v. State, 21 Ga. App. 795 (95 S.E. 269).

2. The due examination thus provided by the probation law requires that the probationer be given notice and an opportunity to be heard upon the question whether his parole shall be revoked or not; and an order . revoking his parole in his absence, without notice and an opportunity to be heard, is null and void.

3. But it appears, under the most favorable view of her case, that the petitioner had not served the original sentence imposed upon her by the court, and that at the time of the institution of this proceeding for habeas corpus the complaint of the probation officer that she had violated the rules prescribed by the court for her conduct while under probation was still pending; and for this reason she was not entitled to a discharge under the writ of habeas corpus at the time it was applied for. Shamblin v. Penn, 148 Ga. 592 (97 S. E. 520).

4. This renders it unnecessary to pass upon the various questions discussed by counsel in their briefs; but all such questions can be threshed out before the court on the hearing of the complaint of the probation officer to have the parole of the applicant yevoked.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except Gilbertj J., absent for providential cause. Hewitt W. Chambers and Chambers & Diclcey, for'plaintiff. Roy Dorsey, solicitor, for defendant, t