Craft v. State

Gregory, Justice:

Respondent William J. Craft, III, pled guilty to housebreaking and was sentenced under the Youthful Offenders Act, S. C. Code Ann. § 24-19-50(c) (1976), for an indeterminate term not to exceed two years. Approximately three years later, Craft petitioned for post conviction relief alleging the Youthful Offender Division was holding him unlawfully beyond his two year sentence. After a hearing, the trial court ordered his release. We reverse.

Section 24-19-50(c) of the Code provides that an offender under the age of twenty-one may be sentenced “indefinitely to the custody of the…