Thrower v. State

JAMES H. FAULKNER, Retired Justice.

Ronnie Wayne Thrower pleaded guilty to manslaughter on September 25, 1989. He was sentenced to serve nine and one-half years in the state penitentiary. The sentence was split, with two years to be served in the Marshall County jail and five years on probation.

Thrower did not begin to serve his sentence in the county jail until October 25, 1989. On October 25,1990, Thrower filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court for Marshall County. Thrower asserted that he was entitled to good time under the Alabama Correctional Incentive Time Act, §…