Commonwealth v. Williams

PRICE, Judge:

This appeal is taken from the lower court’s order revoking probation. Appellant contends that he was not provided with a timely written notice of the alleged violations prior to the revocation hearing and that he was deprived of the right to a speedy revocation hearing. We agree with the former claim but disagree with the latter. The case must therefore be remanded for a second revocation hearing.1

In August of 1973, appellant was sentenced for aggravated robbery to a four year term of probation conditioned on *205the attendance of an eighteen to twenty-four month in-patient drug…