Ragland v. State

James Albert Ragland appealed from the circuit court’s denial of his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition.

*1108The petition sought postconviction relief from two twenty-year split sentences. The sentences were split pursuant to the Split Sentence Act, § 15-18-8, Ala.Code 1975; the trial court ordered that Ragland be confined for five and three years consecutively as the confinement portions of his two split sentences. Ragland asserted that it was illegal to impose consecutive sentences because that resulted in eight years’ confinement, which, according to Ragland, is not authorized by the Split…