Sanders v. MacDougall
| Decision Date | 15 April 1964 |
| Docket Number | No. 18198,18198 |
| Citation | 135 S.E.2d 836,244 S.C. 160 |
| Parties | Raymond SANDERS, Respondent, v. Ellis MacDOUGALL, Director, Board of Corrections, State Penitentiary, South Carolina, Appellant. |
| Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Edward B. Latimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, for appellant.
Robert E. Kneece, Columbia, for respondent.
This is an appeal by the State from an order of the Richland Company Court directing that the petitioner, Raymond Sanders, be released from imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.
On March 24, 1959, petitioner commenced the service of a sentence theretofore imposed upon him. This sentence was for a term of five (5) years, '* * * provided that upon the service of three (3) years that the balance of the aforesaid sentence be and the same is hereby suspended and that the said defendant is hereby placed on probation for a period of five (5) years * * *.'
After being confined under this sentence until December 1, 1960, petitioner was granted a parole by the Probation, Parole and Pardon Board. The 'Certificate of Parole' specified that the prisoner 'be paroled effective 1st day of December, 1960, * * * until the expiration of his maximum sentence, to wit March 24, 1964.' The conditions of parole, printed on the back of this certificate, were accepted by petitioner, and he was released from confinement pending good behavior and subject to the conditions of parole.
On September 4, 1963, the Board issued an order purporting to revoke petitioner's parole and directing that he be returned to the 'South Carolina Penitentiary to serve the remander of the original sentence imposed by the Court * * *.' Thereupon, the petitioner sought and was granted a Writ of Habeas Corpus, which resulted in the order appealed from. The Court held that the Board had no authority to order petitioner reimprisoned after the expiration of the three year term which his sentence required him to serve and while he was entitled to freedom under a suspended sentence, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.
A prisoner upon release on parole continues to serve his sentence outside the prison walls. The word parole is used in contra-distinction to suspened sentence and means a leave of absence from prison during which the prisoner remains in legal custody until the expiration of his sentence. Crooks v. Sanders, 123 S.C. 28, 115 S.E. 760, 28 L.R.A. 940; Ex Parte Anderson, 191 Or. 409, 229 P.2d 633, 230 P.2d 770, 29 A.L.R.2d 1051. Every paroled prisoner remains in the legal custody of the Board and may at any time be imprisoned on its order. Section 55-614, Code of 1962. The Board is the sole judge of whether or not a prisoner has violated his parole, and is authorized to cancel any order for parole, whereupon the prisoner shall 'have the status of an escaped convict, be arrested without warrant and be required to serve the part of the sentence that remains unserved.' Section 55-616, Code of 1962. There is no statutory requirement that notice be given or a hearing held on the question of parole revocation.
Under Section 55-591, Code of 1962, any court of record with criminal jurisdiction is authorized to suspend the execution...
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