Lincoln v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Billy J. Lincoln, an inmate in the Department of Correction, filed in this court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, asking for his release from custody on the ground that a circuit court order revoking an earlier suspended sentence is void. We treat the petition as one for a writ of certiorari to review an assertedly void order. On the basis of the entire record of the proceedings in the circuit court we find the order of revocation to be valid and therefore deny the writ.

In 1973, upon a plea of nolo contendere, the circuit court found Lincoln guilty of…