OPINION
ALCALA, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which KELLER, P.J., and PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.
In this case, we decide that an applicant must prove harm to obtain relief in a writ of habeas corpus premised on an illegal-sentence claim. Here, Jimmie Mark Parrott, applicant, raises an illegal-sentence claim based on the State's improper use of a prior conviction for enhancement purposes. We deny relief because the habeas...
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