Little v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Boggs, Judge.
The trial court revoked Dennis Little’s three-year suspended sentence that was imposed under the First Offender Act for three *253counts of abandonment of a dependent child. Little appeals from the trial court’s denial of his subsequent “Motion to Correct Void Sentence.” Because the trial court was not authorized to revoke Little’s suspended sentence, the sentence imposed is void. We therefore reverse the denial of Little’s motion and vacate his sentence.
The record reveals that in 2009, at a bench trial, Little was found to have committed three counts of felony child abandonment and…
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