Boykins v. State

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Gloria Patricia Boykins, a twenty-six year old woman with a seven-year old child, was sentenced to a six-month jail sentence upon a plea of guilty for attempt to commit the felony of grand larceny. Her application for suspended sentence and probation was denied, and she appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals, where, with one member dissenting, that Court affirmed the trial court’s denial of her petition. We granted certiorari to reverse the intermediate court’s holding and find that the trial judge abused his discretion in refusing probation.

Boykins was employed as a…