Emerson v. State

SHIELDS, Judge.

Defendant-appellant Robert Ray Emerson appeals the trial court's failure to allow presentence commitment credit on his sentence for escape, a class D felony. We affirm.

Facts

On January 17, 1984 Emerson was arrested for escaping the Indiana State Reformatory while serving a sentence for robbery. He pled guilty to the escape charge on May 21, 1985 and on June 17, 1985 received a four year sentence. This sentence was ordered to run consecutively to the robbery sentence Emerson was still serving. The trial court did not allow Emerson any presentence commitment credit on his four…