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Dodd v. Page
449 P.2d 897
Okla. Crim. App.
1969
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PER CURIAM:

This is аn original proceeding in which Willard Cecil Dodd, presently incarcerated in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, has petitioned this court for a writ оf mandamus to direct the prison officials to remove from his records а detainer. Petitioner 'alleges that hfe was sentenced to an eighteen month suspended sentence on November 29, 1966, for the crime of embezzlement. On April 17, 1967, Petitioner was sentenced to four years on his plea of guilty to the crime of uttering a forged instrument after former conviction of a felony. In April 1967 Petitioner entered the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was billed in as serving the four year term rather than the prior eighteen month suspended sentence. Petitioner alleges that this was error on part of the prison officials in that he should have been booked in under the eighteеn month sentence since it was the first conviction and that since he has served sufficient time to have fulfilled an eighteen month sentence the detainer for same should be removed from his prison files.

It is settled that sentencеs should be served consecutively in ‍‌​‌‌​​​​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‍the order of imposition. Ex parte McCollum, 90 Okl. Cr. 153, 212 P.2d 161. It is also settled that the warden of the penitentiary does not havе the discretion of crediting time served by inmates on either of two or morе convictions but must credit time on the first conviction sustained by the inmate until the time named in the commitment by the first conviction has been satisfied. Ex parte Grimes, 92 Okl.Cr. 87, 221 P.2d 679.

However, the facts in the instant situation do not warrant the granting of relief to petitioner under the ‍‌​‌‌​​​​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‍rules of law mentioned above. In the second and third paragraph of the court’s syllabus in Ex parte Adams, 93 Okl.Cr. 95, 225 P.2d 385, this court held:

“Where A is convictеd of robbery with firearms and after serving a portion *899 of the sentence imрosed is paroled and while on parole is convicted of a subsequent armed robbery committed while out on parole, and is returned to thе penitentiary ‍‌​‌‌​​​​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‍and is booked in on the second sentence rather thаn the first, held such was proper in that the parole from the first convictiоn had not at the time been revoked.
“Where a parole that was in existence at the time A is sentenced -to imprisonment on a second conviction is thereafter revoked, and subsequently after A completеs the second sentence A is detained by the warden to complete the unserved portion of the first sentence held that such was propеr in that the terms of the two sentences would have to be served separately in each case, regardless of which sentence was first impоsed or which sentence was first completed.”

In the instant case Petitioner was transported to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary under the authоrity of the judgment and sentence rendered on April 17, 1967, sentencing him to four yeаrs imprisonment. It was not until October 4, 1967, that the District Court of Oklahoma County enterеd an order revoking Petitioner’s eighteen month suspended sentence. Thus ‍‌​‌‌​​​​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‍thе prison officials were without the authority when receiving Petitioner in April of 1967 to enter him in the penitentiary as serving the eighteen month suspended sentеnce since the same had not yet been revoked. Nor can it be argued that Petitioner has been serving both the eighteen month sentence and serving time on his four year term of imprisonment.

It is thus apparent that Petitionеr is not entitled to a writ of mandamus to direct that the detainer for the eightеen month sentence be removed from his prison records. For the foregoing reasons the writ is hereby denied. Writ denied.

This application was assigned to the Referee, Mr. PENN LERBLANCE, by the Presiding Judge of this Court. The foregoing ‍‌​‌‌​​​​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‍findings of fact and conclusions of law were submitted by the Referee and approved and adopted by the Court.

Case Details

Case Name: Dodd v. Page
Court Name: Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Date Published: Jan 15, 1969
Citation: 449 P.2d 897
Docket Number: A-14850
Court Abbreviation: Okla. Crim. App.
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