Whittlesey v. State

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

Christopher Whittlesey has appealed from a sentence imposed after a forgery conviction. 1 As a commercial fisherman, he had forged numerous fish ticket receipts in 1977, resulting in substantial losses to a fish processor.

The sentence in the case was initially meted out by the sentencing judge at a hearing held on July 9, 1979, some two years after the offense. The oral rendition of sentence was reduced to a written judgment on that same day. An amended judgment, altering the sentence, was entered on August 2, 1979. Each of the three statements of the sentence is…