Swanson v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Headnote 1 needs no elaboration.

The act of 1913 (Ga. L. 1913, p. 112) provides for the probation of persons who have been convicted of “misdemeanors or felonies which have been reduced to misdemeanors,” in the following words: “Where the defendant has been convicted either upon a trial or upon his plea, where the court has power to sentence such defendant to the chain-gang, jail or other place of detention in this State, where it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the circumstances of the case and the public good does not demand or require the…