Combs v. State

Miller, Judge.

Brian Keith Combs pled guilty to one count of burglary (OCGA § 16-7-1 (a) (2011)). Pursuant to the negotiated guilty plea, Combs was sentenced on July 17, 2012, to twenty years, with four to serve in confinement. Combs subsequently filed a pro se motion for a nunc pro tunc order to give him credit for time served in confinement awaiting trial. The trial court denied his motion, and Combs appeals from that order, contending that the trial court was required to correct his sentence to give him credit for time served.

Under OCGA § 17-10-11 (a), a convict should be given credit for…