Hord v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Chief Justice.

The question on this appeal from a judgment denying appellant’s RCr 11.42 motion to modify the punishment imposed in an order revoking probation is whether the trial court may impose a greater punishment in its order revoking probation than was fixed in the original judgment of conviction.

Appellant was arraigned May 6, 1968, on a charge of breaking and entering a storehouse, at which time he entered á plea of guilty. The court, on this date, entered judgment finding him guilty as charged and fixed his punishment at one year in prison. On June 15, 1968,…