Keener v. MacDougall

Hill, Justice.

Appellant Keener, after waiving indictment, pled guilty in July, 1972, to several felony charges, including two for armed robbery (capital felonies). He received a life and a ten year sentence on the armed robbery charges, and ten and two year sentences on the other charges.

May, 1973, he filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in Fulton Superior Court to compel the then Director of the Department of Corrections (now Commissioner of the Department of Offender Rehabilitation) to compute his good-time allowances, his prospective release date, and his parole eligibility date,…