State v. Tweedy

Defendant, Melvin Tweedy, pled guilty to unlawfully escaping from legal custody. He was sentenced to a term of 1 year in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex. This sentence runs consecutively to another sentence imposed by the same court on the same date for auto theft.

Defendant urges two assignments of error. (1) The excessiveness of the sentence by making it consecutive rather than concurrent with another sentence imposed on the defendant. (2) The failure to allow defendant full credit for time spent in custody previous to sentencing.

On July 12, 1975, defendant escaped from legal…