Williams v. State

In May, 1975, appellant was charged with four counts of burglary. He pled guilty to four counts of breaking and entering, a lesser included offense, and was convicted thereon. On September 5, 1975, he was sentenced by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to five years imprisonment; however, four years of that sentence were suspended in lieu of active probation.

Appellant served that one year in prison and commenced his four-year probation period on September 5, 1976. On October 5, 1979, appellant was found in violation of the conditions of his probation for reasons that are not in dispute…