Parks v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

The question presented by this appeal is whether a hearing to revoke appellant’s suspended sentence was held in accordance with Ark. Code Ann. § 5-4-310 (1987), providing that revocation hearings shall be^ conducted within a reasonable time, not to exceed sixty days, after a defendant’s arrest.

On September 9,1988, appellant, O.J. Parks, pled guilty to the manufacture of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to a four-year term, with the four years suspended, conditioned on no commissions of a felony within two years. Five months later, on January 24, 1989, appellant…