Case Name: Bobby McGUFFIN, Appellant, v. Henry E. COWAN, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary, Appellee
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1974-02-15
Citations: 505 S.W.2d 773
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bobby McGUFFIN, Appellant, v. Henry E. COWAN, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary, Appellee.
Judges: OSBORNE, C. J., and JONES, MILLI-KEN, PALMORE, REED, STEINFELD and STEPHENSON, JJ., sitting.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 505
Pages: 773–773

Head Matter:
Bobby McGUFFIN, Appellant, v. Henry E. COWAN, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary, Appellee.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
Feb. 15, 1974.
Bobby McGuffin, pro se and David Mur-rell, Deputy Public Defender, Frankfort, for appellant.
Ed W. Hancock, Atty. Gen., Carl Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.

Opinion:
PALMORE, Justice.
It was held in Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471, 92 S.Ct. 2593, 33 L.Ed.2d 484 (1972), and Gagnon v. Scarpelli, 411 U.S. 778, 93 S.Ct. 1756, 36 L.Ed.2d 656 (1973), that parole and probation may not be revoked without a hearing. The question in this case is whether the same principle applies to the denial or forfeiture of "good time" credits allowed a prisoner by KRS 197.045. Insofar as we have the authority to say, the answer is no.
The judgment is affirmed.
OSBORNE, C. J., and JONES, MILLI-KEN, PALMORE, REED, STEINFELD and STEPHENSON, JJ., sitting.
All concur.