Ex Parte Jimmy Joe Williams, Jr., Applicant

Summary

The Court denied the applicant's habeas corpus petition, holding that an unauthorized probation order does not constitute an illegal sentence and that the applicant failed to show prejudice from the unlawful grant of probation. Justice WOMACK, in a concurring opinion, argued the grant was void and should be collaterally attacked; Justice KELLER, concurring, applied estoppel; Justice JOHNSON, concurring, distinguished the case from Busby and Stasey.