Acker v. The State., 184 Ga. App. 321, 361 S.E.2d 509 (1987)

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Judgment reversed. Banke, P. J., and Benham, J., concur.

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Judgment reversed. Banke, P. J., and Benham, J., concur.

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Lindsay A. Tise, Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.Harold N. Acker, pro se.

By accusation, appellant was charged with simple battery. On March 13, 1986, following acceptance of appellant's plea of nolo contendere, the trial court imposed a sentence of twelve months which was to be suspended upon appellant's compliance with certain enumerated conditions. In October of 1986, the State petitioned for the revocation of appellant's suspended sentence. The trial court conducted a hearing and ordered the continuation of appellant's "indefinite" suspended sentence. Appellant appeals from the trial court's order continuing his "indefinite" suspended sentence.

App. 735 (250 SE2d 186) (1978). Accordingly, appellant's suspended sentence, which was imposed in March of 1986, was not "indefinite." By its terms, that sentence was for twelve months and it would, at the latest, have run no later than March of 1987.

During the period that appellant's suspended sentence was running "in accordance with its own terms, [the trial court was authorized to] revoke the suspension and require that the remainder be served within a penal institution." (Emphasis supplied.) Cross v. State, 128 Ga. App. 774, 775 (1) (197 SE2d 853) (1973). It necessarily follows that the trial court would likewise only be authorized to order a continuation of "the remainder" of appellant's suspended sentence. Accordingly, the trial court's order, insofar as it purports to continue appellant's "indefinite" suspended sentence, is erroneous and must be reversed.

1987

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