State v. Boggs

MALLARD, Chief Judge.

The defendant’s only assignment of error is that the trial judge committed error “in revoking defendant’s probation for knowingly and wilfully failing to avoid persons or places of disreputable or harmful character.”

A person convicted of crime is not given a right to probation by the United States Constitution nor by the North Carolina Constitution. State v. Hewett, 270 N.C. 348, 154 S.E. 2d 476 (1967). Probation or suspension of sentence comes as an act of grace to one convicted of crime, and the offender’s rights in a proceeding to revoke his conditional liberty under…