Woods v. Lockhart

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant, a Correction Department inmate, filed for a declaratory judgment and writ of mandamus in Jefferson County Circuit Court, requesting that appellees be required to recompute appellant’s parole eligibility date. The trial court denied appellant’s request, and he brings this appeal.

Appellant has been convicted and sentenced for felonies on three separate occasions. First, in February 1976, he was sentenced for an armed robbery committed in 1975, and given thirty-two years. He was paroled in August 1982, and, in August 1985, he was convicted of other crimes for which…