Wallace v. Wingo

CLAY, Commissioner..This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which relief was denied by the circuit court.

The record shows appellant was convicted in 1967 of several offenses and sentenced to serve a total of two years in the penitentiary. He was paroled but about a year later he was tried and convicted of another crime and was given a three-year sentence, to be served consecutively with any old sentences. He takes the peculiár position that the three-year sentence is void because the authorities are not permitting him to serve out his old sentences prior to serving the three-year sentence. He…