Scroggins v. State

HINES, Justice.

This Court granted a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review that Court’s dismissal of Samuel Scroggins’s application for discretionary appeal. For the reasons that follow, we reverse, and remand.

In 2001, Scroggins was convicted of theft by receiving, forgery, and financial transaction card fraud, and sentenced to probation. On August 5, 2008, his probation was revoked. On July 20, 2009, he moved in the trial court for an out-of-time discretionary appeal, and the trial court granted that motion on August 13, 2009. Scroggins’s subsequent application for…