Legal Opinion

Teat v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided May 12, 1987No. 6 Div. 253Published

1Opinion of the Court

PATTERSON, Judge.

The appellant, Hugh W. Teat, appeals from the trial court’s summary dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. Among the contentions in his petition, we find two that merit a hearing: He is serving time for charges to which he did not enter guilty pleas, and the Department of Corrections has not obeyed an order from the circuit court to have his sentence for one of the two robbery charges to which he did plead guilty run concurrently with any sentence which he was under at the time of his pleas. “A petition for writ of habeas corpus is a proper procedure to test…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Boutwell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1986
  2. Mead v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
  3. Bartlette v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985

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