Prichard v. State

Phillip Lee Prichard (Pritchett), the appellant, pled guilty to three indictments charging three different offenses of burglary in the third degree. On appeal, Prichard objects to the trial judge's refusal to credit him with the time he spent incarcerated pending trial for each offense.

Prichard was sentenced in the first case to three years' imprisonment (to serve one year with the remaining two years suspended). It was only for this offense that the judge credited Prichard with his nine months and twenty-one days jail time. In each of the other two cases, Prichard was sentenced to three…