Legal Opinion

Robinson v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided December 16, 1969No. 1 Div. 41PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Judge.

Appeal from denial of coram nobis. Robinson claims he was not given credit for time served on a former sentence. On the second sentence, the court gave him ten years whereas his first term was twenty. At the time of the second sentence, Robinson had spent some four or five years in prison.

We consider the question can only be raised in a State court by direct appeal.1 See Goolsby v. State, 44 Ala.App. 535, 215 So. 598 and Aaron v. State, 43 Ala.App. 450, 192 So.2d 456.

The judgment below is

Affirmed.. As I understand it, Robinson contends that a sentence must now affirmatively read…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Aaron v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1966
  3. Goolsby v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1968
  4. Goolsby v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1967

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Washington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1973

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