Wood v. Commonwealth

Opinion

BENTON, J.

This appeal arises from a proceeding in which the trial judge revoked sentences that previously were suspended when Norman Wesley Wood was convicted of four charges of larceny. Wood presents the question whether the trial judge upon revocation of suspended sentences may order the sentences to be served consecutively where the original sentencing order recited that the sentences were to run concurrently. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the judgment.

In 1982, Wood was sentenced on four forgery convictions. The sentencing orders state in pertinent part as follows:

Forgery…