Powell v. State

The appellant, Michael Lamar Powell, an inmate in the Alabama prison system, appeals from the Limestone Circuit Court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

In his petition, the appellant contends that he is entitled to be released from prison because, he says, his sentence has expired. The relevant portion of the record reflects that in 1987, the appellant was convicted in the Mobile Circuit Court for unlawfully breaking and entering a motor vehicle and was sentenced to 15 years in prison; that sentence was split and he was ordered to serve 3 years in confinement and then the…