Mount v. State

SHAW, Judge.

Dustin Mount appeals the circuit court’s summary denial of his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim.P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he attacked the life sentence he received for his 2000 guilty-plea conviction for escape in the first degree. Mount did not appeal his conviction and sentence.

In his petition, filed in August 2004, Mount alleged that his life sentence was illegal because, he said, the trial court sentenced him as a habitual offender with three prior felony convictions when, according to Mount, he had only, two prior felony convictions that could be used for sentence…