Hamilton v. Commonwealth

On September 26, 1974, Franklin E. Hamilton, Jr. was convicted in the court below on a charge of statutory burglary. The defendant was sentenced on March 28, 1975 to serve three years in the penitentiary. The trial judge suspended two years and six months of the sentence “conditioned upon the defendant’s good behavior....”

On July 17, 1975, the lower court ordered defendant to show cause why his suspended sentence should not be revoked, it having been represented to the court that defendant had violated the terms of his suspended sentence in that he had been arrested on March 26, 1975 by…