Travis v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

While serving a life sentence for a homicide in the Arkansas Department of Correction, appellant killed a fellow inmate and was charged with capital murder in August 1981. Twelve months later, he pled guilty to a reduced charge of first degree murder and was sentenced to a twenty-year term to run consecutively to his existing life sentence. In September 1986, appellant brought this action, requesting the trial court to amend his commitment order to reflect the penitentiary time he was already serving on the prior homicide but which caused him, also, to be incarcerated for…