Pittman v. State

Defendant entered a negotiated plea to charges of burglary of a dwelling and grand theft, and was sentenced to concurrent seven- and five-year terms of imprisonment. After the sentence was entered defendant requested a fourteen-day stay of execution in order to straighten out personal affairs. The court granted the stay on a condition, which was accepted by the defendant, that the negotiated sentence would be vacated and the maximum twenty-year sentence imposed if the defendant failed to report at the end of the stay period. During the period of the stay the court entered a final judgment of…