Ex Parte Williams

The record of this cause reflects that on August 17, 1981, after Nelson Earl Williams, hereinafter referred to as the applicant, entered a plea of guilty to the offense of aggravated robbery, the trial judge assessed his punishment at ten years’ confinement in the Department of Corrections, but then ordered that the applicant be placed on adult probation for ten years. The law, however, prohibited the trial judge from probating the punishment. See Art. 42.12, Sec. 3f(a)(l)(D), V.A.C.C.P. On July 13, 1984, almost three years later, in attacking the State’s motion to revoke the applicant’s…