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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE
Assigned on Briefs June 29, 2011 LESLIE L. COLEMAN v. JIM MORROW, WARDEN
Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Bledsoe County No. 2010-CR-40 Buddy D. Perry, Judge

No. E2010-02299-CCA-R3-HC - Filed August 22, 2011

The petitioner, Leslie L. Coleman, pled guilty to one count of felony murder and one count of especially aggravated robbery. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of life in prison and fifteen years. He now appeals the summary dismissal of his petition for habeas corpus relief, arguing that the court below erred in concluding that the trial court had the authority to sentence him to life in prison. Because the petitioner has failed to establish that his judgment is void or that he is otherwise entitled to relief, we affirm the dismissal of his habeas corpus petition. Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed J OHN E VERETT W ILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which JERRY L. S MITH and D. K ELLY T HOMAS, J R., JJ., joined. Leslie L. Coleman, Mountain City, Tennessee, Pro Se. Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Matthew Bryant Haskell, Assistant Attorney General; and James Michael Taylor, District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. OPINION On October 17, 1991, the petitioner pled guilty to one count of felony murder and one count of especially aggravated robbery. He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder conviction and to a concurrent fifteen-year sentence for the robbery. He did not appeal his sentences but has filed three unsuccessful petitions for post-conviction relief since that time. On August 16, 2010, the petitioner filed the instant petition for habeas corpus relief, which the trial court summarily denied on September 21, 2010. The petitioner then filed a timely notice of appeal.

Analysis Tennessee Code Annotated section 29-21-101 provides that "[a]ny person imprisoned or restrained of liberty, under any pretense whatsoever . . . may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus, to inquire into the cause of such imprisonment and restraint." T.C.A.

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