Tarrance v. Commonwealth

GANT, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Warren Circuit Court denying the prisoner credit for penitentiary time. The issue is whether it was in violation of either a Kentucky statute or the 14th Amendment to refuse to apply credit for time served to each of two sentences which the Appellant had been serving concurrently in the State Penitentiary, but which were subsequently ordered to be served consecutively after Appellant won a reversal of one of the convictions and was again convicted. The argument of the prisoner is that since he was previously serving both sentences…