TUNSTILL v. STATE

3 Div. 97.

138 So.2d 267 (1962)

Gurney Ray TUNSTILL v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

February 13, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gurney Ray Tunstill, pro se.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Bernard F. Sykes, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Tommy R. Ogletree, Legal Research Aide, Montgomery, for the State.


CATES, Judge.

This habeas corpus appeal raises mainly the question whether the State's not catching a parole violator voids or shortens his term by the time from breach until his return.

In 1950, Tunstill began an eight-year sentence. Paroled January 13, 1956, he was declared delinquent two weeks later. Code 1940, T. 42, § 12.

Seemingly, Tunstill remained at large until some time in 1960 when, on June 25, he plead guilty in his home county of...

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