Bane v. State

BAKER, Judge.

Is it error for a judge to sentence a defendant and, moments later, in the same consolidated hearing with the same parties, revoke the defendant's probation on a prior conviction without requiring additional proof that the defendant violated his probation by committing the crime for which he was sentenced a few moments earlier? It is not.

In 1980, defendant-appellant Clayton Bane was convicted of robbery, a Class A felony. 1 He received a total sentence of 20 years, with six executed and 14 on probation. Early in 1981, his sentence was modified so that the entire balance was to be…