Eldridge v. State

CATES, Judge.

Appeal from denial of habeas corpus by penitentiary prisoner.

I

The complaint is that after new trials two separate trial courts gave no credit for time previously served.

First, Eldridge was sentenced to five years from the Mobile Circuit Court for burglary, second degree.

While serving that sentence he was convicted of prison escape in Clarke County.

*328Both sentences were set aside under Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S. Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799.

Next, in 1967, Eldridge was reconvicted separately. In each case he was sentenced to eighteen months. . One sentence (for escape) is…