Harold Eugene Rogers, Appellant v. Gleenover Knight, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal of Rogers’s petition for declaratory judgment and mandamus because no justiciable controversy remained: Rogers was parole eligible and had already received a parole hearing, while the State did not contest either point. Because the circuit court considered material outside the pleadings, the dismissal was reviewed as a summary-judgment ruling. Justices Baker and Hart, dissenting, would have reversed and remanded because the record did not establish that Rogers’s parole eligibility had been correctly calculated.