Ex Parte Hargett

POWERS, Justice.

Herbert E. Hargett appeals from an order of the district court rendered on his petition for writ of habeas corpus. We will affirm the order.

THE CONTROVERSY

In 1981, the trial court rendered judgment convicting Hargett of felony theft and sentencing him to a term of imprisonment that he has served. In 1989, Hargett filed in the trial court a petition for writ of habeas corpus under Article V, section 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas. He averred that certain collateral effects of his conviction amounted to a restraint of his liberty, and that the restraint was unlawful…