Grant v. Commonwealth

In this revocation proceeding in a criminal case, the question is whether the trial court had jurisdiction to sentence the defendant, the imposition of punishment previously having been suspended.

The facts are undisputed. On August 19, 1976, defendant Jerry Lee Grant was found guilty in the court below of receiving stolen property. At the sentencing hearing on September 28, 1976, after review of a probation officer’s report, a judge of the trial court entered an order providing:

“[T]he Court doth now, on motion of the defendant, suspend the imposition of sentence in this case conditioned upon…