Timmons v. State

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

This appeal arose from revocation of a probation and a subsequent sentencing in Pulaski County Circuit Court. Leo Timmons argues that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to hold a revocation hearing and to sentence him because in a previous judgment and disposition order the same court had imposed a sentence, probation, and a fine, which had been put into execution. Alternatively, appellant argues that the trial court sentenced him illegally when, after granting the State’s amended probation revocation petition, it sentenced him to eight years’ imprisonment, two of…