Simmons v. State

SCHEB, Acting Chief Judge.

John Smith Simmons challenges the trial court’s final orders revoking and modifying his probation.

In 1979 defendant Simmons was adjudicated guilty of five counts of dealing in stolen property. The court placed him on concurrent seven-year periods of probation for each charge. This probation was “to commence upon [defendant’s] release from prison” on a separate unrelated offense, for which defendant had been sentenced to four years imprisonment.

Defendant was paroled from prison on December 2, 1981, with his parole to expire on May 21, 1983. On December 21, 1982,…