Post v. Ruth

LEE, Justice,

for the Court:

Ronny Post appeals to this Court from an order of the Circuit Court of Sunflower County denying his petition for a writ of certiorari directed to B. C. Ruth, Director of Records at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to obtain statutory good time under Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated Section 47-5-139 (Supp.1973), in effect at the time he was sentenced in February, 1974, rather than under Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated Section 47-5-139 (Supp.1975), in effect at the time he was admitted to the penitentiary in August, 1975.

Appellant assigns as error the following:(1)…