Hutchinson v. State

— sufficiency of certified conviction to revoke probation —

This is an appeal of a revocation of probation in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, the evidence for which consisted solely of a certified docket entry showing appellant’s subsequent criminal conviction as evidence that he had violated a condition of his probation that he would obey all laws. Relying primarily upon Kern v. State, 521 P.2d 412 (Okla. Crim. 1974), appellant contends that proof of a conviction that has been appealed and thus is not yet final, may not serve as the sole basis for finding a violation of probation, citing…