Guy Tucker joined together in creating the Arkansas Criminal Code Revision Commission. The Commission was charged with revising the substantive criminal law, which resulted in the adoption of the Arkansas Criminal Code by the General Assembly in 1975. The time has come again for a thorough review of our criminal code. KAREN R. BAKER, Justice, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I concur with the majority’s disposition of the first and second issues raised by Glaze in his appeal. However, because Glaze’s sentence is not illegal, I would affirm as to the third issue as well. This court has held that where the law does not authorize the particular sentence pronounced by the trial court, the sentence is unauthorized and illegal. Donaldson v. State, 370 Ark. 3, 257 S.W.3d 74 (2007) (<HOLDING>). The majority cites to three cases in support
holding that the trial court exceeded its authority by conditioning probation upon the payment of taxes and that the excess sentence imposed was void holding that the sentence entered by the circuit court was illegal because the court had no authority to impose a sentence that exceeded the punishment fixed by the jury holding that the district court was permitted to find conduct that had been acquitted by the jury when determining the defendants sentence holding that no court has the authority to substitute a different sentence for that which is required by law recognizing a claim that the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum