Canard v. State

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

This appeal involves the interpretation of Act 44 of 1953 [Ark. Stats., § 43-2324, Supplement] and its application to a situation where a person, upon a plea of guilty, is given a suspended sentence for one year in the penitentiary and the suspension is revoked by the trial judge more than a year later.

Appellant, Johnny Canard, on December 3, 1953, pled guilty to the crime of grand larceny in the Circuit Court of Stone County. At the same time the presiding judge signed this order <£. . . Johnny Canard is hereby sentenced to serve one year in the state…