Chadwell v. State

Andree Layton Roaf, Judge.

Ross Chadwell appeals from a Benton County Circuit Court order revoking his suspended sentence and sentencing him to ten years in the Department of Correction. On appeal, Chadwell argues that (1) the trial court erred in sentencing him to ten years when two years of his ten-year suspended sentence had elapsed, and (2) the trial court lacked authority to sentence him because the ten-year suspended sentence was illegal on its face and in violation of the statute prohibiting suspension of sentences of habitud offenders. We, agree that this case should be reversed and…