Haney v. Wingo

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Lawrence Earl Haney, who is confined in the state penitentiary serving a three-year sentence for forgery imposed on March 21, 1969, filed a habeas corpus petition in the Lyon Circuit Court, against the warden of the penitentiary, seeking that he be given credit on his sentence for 193 days during which he was confined in jail in Texas. (He did not seek immediate release from confinement, because even with the credit his sentence would not yet have expired.) The circuit court entered judgment dismissing the petition, from which judgment Haney has appealed to this court.

Hane…