State v. Willis

ELMORE, Judge.

On 19 March 2008, James Charles Willis (defendant) was convicted in Pender County Superior Court of larceny of a dog and sentenced to a term of four to five months’ imprisonment. The trial court suspended the sentence and placed defendant on supervised probation for twenty-four months. In open court, the judge ordered as a special condition of probation that defendant “is not to have in his possession more than one dog at any time. Let him have a pet.”

However, when the judge issued his written sentence later that day, the special condition had been modified to: “Defendant is not…