Terry v. State

While confined within the Alabama Prison System at Staton Correctional Center in Elmore County, James J. Terry filed on March 14, 1984, in the Circuit Court of Elmore County a petition for writ of habeas corpus in which he claimed that he was then being held illegally at Staton. He based his claim on an allegation that he was being held on an illegally imposed sentence of November 11, 1983, by the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama, after a judgment of conviction had been rendered against him for a felony at the conclusion of a trial commencing on June 7, 1983. It was further alleged in…