Ex Parte Williams

OPINION

in which MEYERS, PRICE, HOLLAND, and HERVEY, J.J., joined.

When Jimmy Joe Williams was convicted of aggravated assault, the trial judge suspended imposition of sentence and placed him on ten years’ probation, despite his ineligibility for probation. The trial *657judge later revoked Williams’s probation and sentenced him to ten years in prison. Can Williams successfully complain about the unlawful grant of probation in a habeas corpus application? We conclude that he cannot.

I. Factual and Legal Background

The trial judge entered a deadly weapon finding in the judgment suspending Williams’s…