Salley

This petition for habeas corpus brings to us another case having to do with the computation of credits against a prison sentence. No judgment was entered in the trial court in accordance with Mass.R.Civ.P. 58, as amended, 371 Mass. 908 (1977), and, accordingly, the appeal must be dismissed. Tisei v. Building Inspector of Marlborough, 5 Mass. App. Ct. 328, 330 (1977). Since the case has been fully briefed and argued, however, we state our views. Ibid.

Salley, the petitioner, was convicted of rape in 1961 and received a sentence of eighteen to twenty years at Walpole. Applying “statutory good…