Cruces v. State

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

On December 1, 1964, appellant was found guilty of manslaughter by the verdict of a jury and punishment was assessed by it to ten years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. The trial court’s minute book shows that the conviction was for manslaughter, but the records of the circuit clerk recited that appellant stood convicted of the crime of murder second degree. On April 30, 1968, the court on its own motion took up “the matter of amending nunc pro tunc the judgment and order of this Court heretofore erroneously entered by scrivener’s error on January 25,…