Polsgrove v. Kentucky Bureau of Corrections

JONES, Justice.

Donald Ray Polsgrove filed a petition for a declaratory judgment in Franklin Circuit Court. He requested that the Bureau of Corrections be directed to award him full “good-time” credit for the time spent in the county jail prior to his conviction and sentence. The trial court granted the Bureau’s motion to dismiss Polsgrove's petition. The Court of Appeals affirmed the order of the trial court in an opinion published at 549 S.W.2d 834 (1977). The Court of Appeals based its decision upon the grounds that: (1) Polsgrove sought the remedy by means of a declaratory judgment and,…