Collins v. State

JOSEPH J. MULLINS, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Jerry C. Collins, filed a petition in the Circuit Court of Escambia County for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition was, on motion by the state, dismissed without a hearing. The appellant appeals to this Court.

Appellant claims that he had been improperly sentenced in a case against him for escape in the first degree by the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama.

We hold that the trial court did not err when it dismissed appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, because it appears from the face of the petition itself that the…