Peoples v. State

ON REMANDMENT

PATTERSON, Judge.

On original deliverance this court affirmed, without opinion, the trial court’s judgment summarily denying appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus, wherein he alleged that he was entitled to credit on his sentence for the time he spent incarcerated in jail while his murder conviction and *817improper twenty-year sentence were on appeal. After we denied his application for rehearing, he petitioned the Supreme Court of Alabama for a writ of certiorari, which was granted.

The Supreme Court, relying on Crowden v. Bowen, 734 F.2d 641 (11th Cir.1984), held that to…