Peoples v. State

MADDOX, Justice.

On November 21, 1984, Harry Peoples filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Elmore County, contending that he is entitled to jail credit for the time he spent in the Montgomery County Jail while his murder conviction was on appeal. During this time, the Circuit Court of Montgomery County had suspended the execution of his sentence;

On January 18,1985, the Circuit Court of Elmore County dismissed Peoples’s petition, without a hearing. Peoples appealed, and, on July 2, 1985, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the judgment, without an opinion, 479…