Ex Parte Hale

The issue in this case is whether the applicant should be given credit on a subsequent sentence for the time during which he was erroneously released on mandatory supervision when he should have continued to be imprisoned under the previous sentence.

I

On November 5, 1991, the applicant was sentenced to seven years in prison for burglary. On August 8,1992, he unlawfully carried a weapon in prison, an offense for which he was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment on September 22, 1994. As the law requires, the judgment in the weapon case specified that the sentence not begin until the…