Holman v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal was submitted May 19, 1966.

Holman had been found guilty of vagrancy. The circuit court (after a trial de novo without a jury) on June 10, 1965, suspended execution of a ninety-day hard labor sentence “pending the good behavior of the defendant” for a period of one year.

November 18, 1965, the State filed a motion to revoke the suspension. A hearing was held and probation was revoked. Hence this appeal.

I

The evidence to support revocation tended to show that Holman, who was acting as night clerk at a motel, asked a male guest if he desired a female companion. This guest…