Owens v. State

QN PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

PATTERSON, Justice:

Petitioner, an inmate of the state penitentiary, has filed with this Court a petition entitled “Writ of Habeas Corpus”- which we will consider as a motion so correct the sentence imposed upon him. He alleges by such motion that he was tried and convicted on March 16, 1966, by the Circuit Court of Forrest County under an indictment charging both burglary and grand larceny in a single count. He further alleges that after being tried before the jury on this charge he was sentenced to serve a term of four years for burglary and three years…