People v. Lewis

While serving a sentence in the Nebraska state penitentiary, the defendant, Jeffrey Taylor Lewis, was returned to Colorado to face certain charges. Lewis wrote a series of bad checks and passed them in both Colorado and Nebraska. His crime spree came to an end when he was arrested in Nebraska. Colorado obtained custody of the defendant by use of the "Agreement on Detainers." Section 24-60-501, et seq., C.R.S. 1973. When the defendant appeared before the district court in Colorado, he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of second-degree forgery. Section 18-5-103, C.R.S. 1973. The trial court sentenced the defendant to an indeterminate sentence, not to exceed three and one-half years, at the Colorado state penitentiary and ordered that: