DeHart v. State

Steele Hays Justice.

This appeal questions whether a trial court exceeds its jurisdiction when, having imposed a sentence for a term of years, which the defendant has been serving, it adds a fine for a subsequent offense.

Scarlett DeHart was originally charged in September 1988 with overdraft and theft by deception. She was convicted and in January 1990 was sentenced to a ten-year term of imprisonment with suspended execution of five of those years, conditioned upon her living a law-abiding life. She began serving the five years which were not suspended.

In October 1990, Ms. DeHart was paroled…