46-18-903. Application for review. (1) Any person sentenced to a term of 1 year or more in the state prison by any court of competent jurisdiction may within 60 days from the date such sentence was imposed, except in any case in which a different sentence could not have been imposed, file with the clerk of the district court in the county in which judgment was rendered an application for review of the sentence by the review division. Upon imposition of the sentence, the clerk shall give written notice to the person sentenced of his right to make such a request. Such notice shall include a statement that review of the sentence may result in decrease or increase of the sentence within limits fixed by law.
     (2) The clerk shall transmit such application to the review division and shall notify the judge who imposed the sentence and the county attorney of the county in which the sentence was imposed. Such judge may transmit to the review division a statement of his reasons for imposing the sentence and shall transmit such a statement within 7 days if requested to do so by the review division.
     (3) The review division may for cause shown consider any late request for review of sentence and may grant such request.
     (4) The filing of an application for review shall not stay the execution of the sentence.

     History: En. 95-2502 by Sec. 1, Ch. 196, L. 1967; R.C.M. 1947, 95-2502.