Brown v. State

Appellant, Charlie Brown, appeals the trial court’s order revoking his probation in two cases and imposing a sentence of 8.125 years as a habitual offender. The trial court found that Brown willfully and substantially violated six conditions of his probation-although we are compelled to find that the state proved only two of the six violations. Because we are unable to conclude that the trial court would have revoked Brown’s probation as to the two violations actually proven, we reverse the order revoking probation and remand this case to the trial court for further proceedings.

In 2003, Brown…