In re Griffin

Petitioner was charged with four counts of grand theft and five of forgery. lie pleaded guilty to count 3 (grand theft) and count 9 (forgery). On July 23, 1963, the superior court suspended imposition of sentence on these counts, dismissed the other charges, and granted petitioner probation for the term of three years.

The probation report showed that in his work as an insurance adjuster petitioner obtained approximately $20,000 by thefts and forgeries. He attributed his criminal activities to a need for money that arose from a compulsion to gamble. The conditions of probation were that he spend the first six months of the three-year term in the county jail, that he make restitution through the probation officer in amounts and manner to be prescribed by that officer, and that he not gamble. After petitioner had been in jail for three months the court modified the probation order to permit his immediate release because he represented that he would be able to obtain employment and begin restitution. Petitioner agreed with the probation officer that beginning in February 1964 he would make payments to that officer of about $.100 a month toward restitution.

Petitioner did not make…