Shy v. State

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

The appellant, in 1963, received two five-year concurrent sentences for burglary (4th degree), and was placed on probation for a period of five years. On August 19, 1966, he received a sentence of three years on a charge of grand larceny; his probation on the two burglary charges was revoked, and he was sentenced to serve the five-year sentences on those charges.

On December 14, 1966, the appellant wrote the Superior Court. His letter was docketed as a motion for reduction of sentence under Criminal Rule 35(b), Del.C. Ann. No action was taken thereafter until present…