Williams v. State

Appellant challenges his judgments and sentences for attempted first degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated child abuse. He raises two points: (1) that his sentence for attempted murder exceeds the statutory maximum; and (2) that the written sentence for the kidnapping should be conformed to the trial court’s oral pronouncement at the plea and sentencing hearing.

Appellant pled no contest to concurrent forty-year prison terms followed by fifteen years’ probation for the attempted murder and kidnapping and to a fifteen-year sentence on aggravated child abuse. The state correctly concedes that…