Taylor v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court revoking the appellant's probation. The Attorney General, the appellee, has declined to file a brief "on the basis that the learned trial judge did not make a written statement as to the evidence relied on and the reasons for revoking Appellant's probation as required by the Alabama Supreme Court in Armstrong v. State, 294 Ala. 100,312 So.2d 620 (1975) in the interpretation of Gagnon v. Scarpelli,411 U.S. 778, 93 S.Ct. 1756, 36 L.Ed.2d 656 (1973)."

Our review shows that the requirements of Armstrong, supra, have not been satisfied. In…