Johnson v. State

Appellant, Gurtram J. Johnson, appeals the trial court order summarily denying his motion to correct illegal sentence which argued that he was erroneously denied a certain amount of jail time credit based on his custody in jail commencing on August 4, 1997, and ending on his sentencing on October 20,1999.

The trial court summarily denied the motion to correct illegal sentence on the ground that the record showed that appellant had been released on several dates and then re-arrested, such that he was not entitled to the total number of days of credit from August 4, 1997, to the date of…