State ex rel. Ford v. Seawell

PONDER, Judge.

Plaintiff, an Angola inmate, appealed the dismissal of his writ of mandamus to require that defendants correct his parole eligibility date and bring him before the parole board.

The issues on appeal are the applicability of the writ of mandamus and the application of good time credit to plaintiffs sentence.

In 1976 plaintiff was sentenced to serve four eighteen year sentences and a five year sentence, all to run concurrently. After an appeal in 1979, one of his eighteen year sentences, for burglary of a pharmacy, was reduced to nine years, to run concurrently with the other…