Court Opinion

ID: 9723412
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:14:02.274281+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:48.602117
License: Public Domain

WOLLMAN, Justice
(dissenting).
I am persuaded that the language of SDCL 23-57-4 is broad enough to authorize a brief period of imprisonment as a proper condition of probation. See, e. g., State v. Jones, Fla., 327 So.2d 18; Franklin v. State, 87 Idaho 291, 392 P.2d 552, State ex rel. Woodbury v. District Court, 159 Mont. 128, 495 P.2d 1119.
Even if I concurred-in the majority opinion, I would hold that the case be remanded to the circuit court for resentencing. On the basis of the truncated record before us, we are not justified in presuming that the trial judge would have suspended imposition of sentence and placed defendant on straight probation had he known that defendant would not be required to spend any *488time in confinement. It is just as logical to infer that the trial judge was of the opinion that the overall plan of rehabilitation for defendant could not be fulfilled without a term of imprisonment as to assume the contrary.