State v. Scott

Respondent was charged in 1974 with second-degree burglary, entered a guilty plea and was given a suspended sentence. One of the conditions of the suspended sentence was that he not use or possess drugs. In 1976 he was charged with possession of heroin and entered a guilty plea. The State petitioned to revoke the suspension of sentence on the basis of the heroin possession.

On January 26, 1977, a plea of guilty was entered on the heroin charge. On February 16, respondent was before the court for the dual purpose of sentence on the heroin charge and revocation of the suspended sentence on the…