Williams v. State

Petitioner Sterling Williams pleaded guilty in 1981 to theft in case CR 81-82A and two counts of burglary. He was sentenced to serve terms of imprisonment for each of the burglary counts. A sentence of ten years for theft was suspended. He was released from prison in 1982. Petitioner was again arrested and charged with burglary and confined to the city jail. He escaped and was subsequently charged with escape in the first degree. As a result of the escape charge, the State filed a petition to revoke the ten-year suspended sentence. Petitioner pleaded guilty to escape and to the allegations…