Fox v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

This is an original proceeding for a writ of mandamus in which Petitioner, an inmate of Oklahoma State Penitentiary, requests the Respondent to correct an error in the records of the penitentiary which show Petitioner with serving a subsequently imposed sentence before serving an unexpired prior sentence. After Petitioner had been released from the penitentiary on parole, he was returned as a parole violator and for a new sentence imposed for a crime committed while he was on parole.

It is the general rule, applied in most jurisdictions, that where a prisoner, conditionally…