Griffin v. State

Banke, Judge.

This is an appeal from a probation revocation. The defendant was originally indicted for burglary and theft by taking. He pled guilty to the burglary count and was placed on probation without an adjudication of guilt pursuant to the First Offender Probation Act (Ga. L. 1968, p. 324; Code Ann. § 27-2727 et seq.). He did not plead guilty to the theft charge. After hearing evidence that the defendant subsequently committed rape and battery upon a 16-year-old girl, the trial court adjudicated him guilty of the burglary charge, based on his previous plea of guilty. See State v. Wiley,…