State v. Camp

HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of bastardy and placed on probation for five years commencing 1 November 1973. Probation was revoked and the six months suspended sentence placed into effect on 7 December 1978. Defendant contends the five-year period of suspension and probation had expired and Judge Friday therefore had no jurisdiction to revoke the probation and activate the sentence. This constitutes defendant’s first assignment of error.

G.S. 15A-1342(a) provides in pertinent part: “The court may place an offender on probation for a maximum of five years.”

G.S. 15A-1344(d) (Supp.…