Brown v. State

We reverse the trial court’s order denying appellant’s emergency motion to correct illegal sentence. The motion claimed that the court failed to check the prison credit box on her sentence and that as a result the Department of Corrections has failed to grant her credit for the 252 days that she previously served in prison before the revocation of the probationary portion of her split youthful offender sentence in this case. The State concedes that remand is necessary.

A defendant is entitled to credit for time served in prison prior to a violation of probation under a split sentence. Layman…