Grimes v. Stewart

Mobley, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Sheriff of Fulton County from a judgment granting the writ of habeas corpus and ordering release of the petitioner, who was a prisoner serving a misdemeanor sentence of 12 months in the Fulton County jail.

The trial court sentenced the prisoner to serve 12 months in the Fulton County Jail, or such other places of confinement as provided by Fulton County. He was assigned to Fulton County jail in custody of the sheriff. The sentence of the court contained the provision: “The ‘good-time’ to which said defendant is entitled, under the terms of this sentence…