Opinion ID: 1980879
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Heading: Credit Time Due

Text: Finally, Corn maintains the trial court erred in denying him credit time for the days spent awaiting trial for the takeover. Corn was serving a sentence on an unrelated charge when the jail takeover occurred. He was sentenced, as required by statute, to a term consecutive to the prior sentence. Ind.Code Ann. § 35-50-1-2(b) (West 1986). Indiana inmates earn class I credit when imprisoned awaiting trial or sentencing. Ind.Code Ann. § 35-50-6-4(a) (West 1986). Class I credit means an inmate earns one additional day off a sentence for each day actually served. Ind.Code Ann. § 35-50-6-3(a) (West 1986). We think the disposition in Emerson v. State (1986), Ind.App., 498 N.E.2d 1301, supports the trial court's decision. In Emerson, the defendant was serving a sentence for robbery when he escaped from the Indiana State Reformatory. He was later captured and given a four-year sentence for escaping, consecutive to his robbery sentence. The Court of Appeals denied Emerson presentence commitment credit on the escape conviction. It held: Emerson received credit on the aggregate of the robbery sentence and the escape sentence by receiving credit on his robbery commitment. To additionally award him credit on the escape sentence would be to award him double or extra credit, a result the legislature did not intend. Further, if Emerson were granted presentence credit against the sentence imposed for escape, the presentence credit portion of Emerson's sentence for escape would in effect be served concurrently with his robbery sentence. Id. at 1302-03 (citation omitted). Corn, like Emerson, was serving time for a conviction. Corn took part in the takeover of the jail. Emerson escaped from the Reformatory. Both inmates received, per statute, sentences to run consecutive to the sentences that put Corn in the county jail and Emerson in the State Reformatory. We affirm the trial court's decision on credit time.