Gipson, Raimond Kevon

in which MEYERS, PRICE, WOMACK, KEASLER, HERVEY, COCHRAN, and ALCALA, JJ., joined.

On appellant’s plea of true, the trial judge revoked appellant’s community supervision for failing to pay his fine and various court-assessed fees. The court of appeals reversed on the basis that the State failed to satisfy its burden of showing, under § 21(c),1 that appellant was able to pay.2 In its petition for discretionary review, the State contends, inter alia res, that § 21(c) does not apply to fines. We agree.

We construe a statute in accordance with its literal text unless the language of the statute is…