Cox v. State

The appellant, Phillip R. Cox, appeals from the circuit court's dismissal of his "Petition for Writ of Certiorari," which the state and the court treated as a petition for writ of habeas corpus. In this petition, Cox alleged that he is incarcerated in the Elmore Correctional Center; that, when he was sentenced to 99 years' imprisonment for his April 1980 conviction for murder, he was "entitled" to incentive good time (IGT) pursuant to §§ 14-9-20 through -25, Code of Alabama 1975;1 and that he is being denied IGT contrary to the legislature's intent.

Section 14-9-20 states, "In order to…