Bernard Winfield Shortt v. State

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. PD-0597-15 BERNARD WINFIELD SHORTT, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW FROM THE FIFTH COURT OF APPEALS DALLAS COUNTY K ELLER, P.J., filed a dissenting opinion in which KEASLER, HERVEY, and KEEL, JJ., joined. Historically, there was no right to appeal from a judgment imposing probation. Defendants had to wait until their probation was revoked, and then appeal from the order of revocation. Eventually, appeals from the imposition of probation were authorized, and that was accomplished by a provision in…