GA 17-10-3 - GA 17-10-3

Probation Court cannot reserve right to revoke probation without notice or hearing. - If a probation sentence is given, the trial judge is without authority to reserve therein the right to revoke the probation sentence without notice or hearing. Balkcom v. Gunn, 206 Ga. 167 , 56 S.E.2d 482 (1949). Credit for time served if probation is revoked. - One serving a sentence on probation is fulfilling that person's sentence as effectually as if confined in jail or on the chain gang and, accordingly, if after a hearing the order granting such probation is revoked, the time served by the defendant before the revocation must be counted in the defendant's favor and deducted from the period of service imposed. Roper v. Mallard, 193 Ga. 684 , 19 S.E.2d 525 (1942). Suspension of defendant's driver's li...