Roper v. State

Miller, Judge.

With the assistance of counsel, Jacob Roper pled nolo contendere to a single-count indictment charging him with aggravated assault by cutting the neck of Ron Graham with a knife and was granted first offender treatment. This judgment expressly provides that “no judgment of guilt be imposed at this time but that further proceedings are deferred and [that Roper] is . . . sentenced to confinement for a period of 12 Years to Serve. . . .” New counsel filed a timely notice of appeal 1 from the ostensible “judgment of conviction,” enumerating the failure of the trial court to make a…