Petras v. State

COBB, Judge.

After entering a plea of guilty to uttering or issuing a worthless check (a Category 6 offense), Myrtle Petras was sentenced in July of 1985 to two years of community control and three years’ probation, to run consecutively. Petras appealed the sentence to this court, claiming that the trial court erred in computing her scoresheet under the guidelines when it added twenty points for four prior misdemeanor convictions under the heading “Prior Convictions for Category 6 Offenses.” An opinion was recently released by this court in answer, holding that this was in fact erroneous. See…