State v. Simpson

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendant’s first three assignments of error relate to the admission and exclusion of certain testimony at the hearing on the State’s motion to activate the prison sentence.

At a hearing to revoke the suspension of a prison sentence for the alleged violation of a. valid condition of suspension, the court is not bound by strict rules of evidence. All that is required in a hearing of this character is that the evidence be such as to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation or that…