Owens v. State
Owens v. State
Opinion of the Court
QN PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
Petitioner, an inmate of the state penitentiary, has filed with this Court a petition entitled “Writ of Habeas Corpus”- which we will consider as a motion so correct the sentence imposed upon him. He alleges by such motion that he was tried and convicted on March 16, 1966, by the Circuit Court of Forrest County under an indictment charging both burglary and grand larceny in a single count. He further alleges that after being tried before the jury on this charge he was sentenced to serve a term of four years for burglary and three years for grand larceny with the two sentences to run consecutively.
The record substantiates the allegations of the petition. The sentence is error. See Bullock v. State, 222 So.2d 692 (Miss. 1969), Evans v. State, 204 So.2d 570 (Miss. 1967), and Bradshaw v. State, 192 So.2d 387 (Miss. 1966), in each of which we held
The motion for correction of sentence is sustained and the three-year sentence erroneously imposed on the charge of grand larceny is hereby deleted.
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