State v. Jenkins

ALMON, Judge.

William Earl Jenkins sought his release from Holman Prison in Atmore by filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit-Court of Escambia County. He alleged that he was being illegally detained because of an unlawful.forfeiture of “good time” which had accrued to him under Tit. 45, § 253, Code of Alabama, 1940, as amended. This act' provides that each prisoner who has been convicted and sentenced to confinement “in the penitentiary, or at hard labor for the county, for a definite *281or indetermináte term, other than for life, whose record of conduct shows that he' has…