Public Law 83–69

That in all cases in the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, and in the Juvenile Court, of the District of Columbia, the municipal court or the juvenile court, as the case may be, shall have power upon conviction to suspend the imposition of sentence or to impose sentence and suspend the execution thereof, if it should appear to the satisfaction of the court that the ends of justice and the best interests of the public and of the defendant would be served thereby. In each case of the imposition of sentence and the suspension of the execution thereof, the municipal court may, in its discretion, place the defendant on probation as provided by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 864; sec. 24–102, D. C. Code, 1940), and the juvenile court may, in its discretion, place the defendant on probation as provided by the Act approved June 1, 1938 (52 Stat. 601; sec. 11–919, D. C. Code, 1940), by the Act approved March 23, 1906, as amended (34 Stat. 86; sec. 22–903, D. C. Code, 1940), or by the Act approved February 4, 1925 (43 Stat. 807; sec. 31–207, D. C; Code, 1940), as the case may be.