Riley, J.
Indiana Code section 35-38-1-15 [the motion to correct erroneous sentence statute] enables courts “to encourage conservation of judicial time and energy while at the same time affording speedy and efficient justice to those convicted of a crime.” Robinson, 805 N.E.2d at 787 (emphasis added). Here, despite the face of the sentencing judgment, it would actually be contrary to the interests of justice to find that Woodcox’s sentence for rape should be corrected to a term of twenty years. This is not a case that can be resolved by considering only the sentencing judgment and relevant statutes because Woodcox’s claim under Indiana Code section 35-38-1-15 is nothing more than a manipulative attempt to excise thirty years from his sentence. Although Woodcox carefully omitted from the appellate record any documents which might indicate that he was convicted of a Class A felony rather than a Class B felony rape, he cited to the unchallenged supreme court opinion that affirmed his rape conviction as a Class A felony. See Woodcox, 591 N.E.2d at 1021. Notwithstanding the Class B felony notation in the judgment of conviction, Woodcox was actually convicted of Class A felony rape.
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The judgment of conviction is the document that “memorializes a defendant’s conviction, the crime, and the terms of the sentence.” 24 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1995 (2015). By law, the judgment of conviction must include the crime for which the defendant was “adjudged guilty.” I.C. § 35-38-3-2. In distinction, the “entry of judgment” is “a ministerial act of the clerk.” 24 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1995 (2015). In the present case, Woodcox was adjudged guilty of a Class A felony—which merits a fifty-year sentence, but the entry of judgment mistakenly refers to a Class B felony. Thus, it is an error of form rather than substance. If we were to hold that Indiana Code section 35-38-1-15 requires correction of Woodcox’s sentence when the error is in the entry of the judgment of conviction, Woodcox would receive a sentencing windfall based on a clerical error—i.e., he would get the benefit of a Class B felony sentence on a Class A felony conviction. The interests of justice demand that he serve the sentence for the Class A felony that he committed. Therefore, we find the appropriate remedy is to remand with instructions for the trial court to make a nunc pro tunc correction of the clerical error contained in both the sentencing judgment and the abstract of judgment to accurately reflect that Woodcox was convicted of Class A felony rape, for which he was properly sentenced.