Court Opinion

ID: 9678572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:23:41.297486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:05.705458
License: Public Domain

McCALEB, Justice
(dissenting).
I cannot agree that the district judge was without authority to grant defendant a suspensive appeal from the judgment revoking the suspension of the two concurrent ten-year sentences imposed on him. Article 912 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by Act 146 of 1968, provides in part:
“A. Only a final judgment or ruling is appealable.
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“C. The judgments or rulings from which the defendant may appeal include, but are not limited to :
(1) A judgment which imposes sentence ;
(2) A ruling upon motion by the state declaring the present insanity of the defendant.”
It cannot be doubted that a judgment revoking a suspended sentence is a final judgment and, while it does not fall within either of the two categories above mentioned, Subsection C of Article 912 authorizes the appeal herein since it specifically declares that appeals by the defendant include, "but are not limited, to”, the appeals which come within these specially enumerated instances. It seems to me that, although an appeal from a judgment imposing a suspended sentence may be taken within the time prescribed by law from the date of the imposition of such sentence as provided by Arti*679ele 893 C.Cr.P., the defendant, who has been given a suspended sentence, should also be allowed an appeal from a judgment revoking such sentence, for it is only then that the sentence is made executory on behalf of the State, and it is only then that the defendant suffers incarceration.
I respectfully dissent.