Williams v. State

BUCHANAN, Chief Judge.

CASE SUMMARY

Defendant-appellant Lonnie Ray Williams (Williams) appeals from the trial court’s denial of his Petition for Treatment as an Alcoholic, filed five months after the imposition of sentence pursuant to a plea agreement. Williams claims that the court erred in failing to order an examination by the Department of Mental Health to determine his eligibility for treatment as an alcoholic; and that the trial court, lacking the results of such an examination, was without authority to deny the petition.

We affirm.

FACTS

The record discloses that on August 29, 1979,…