Case ID: so2d_365/html/1107-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Lucius PERRON.
    No. 62953.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Dec. 22, 1978.
    A. J. Boudreaux, Staff Appeals Counsel, Indigent Defender Bd.; Kenner Philip E. O’Neill, Metairie, for defendant-appellant.
    William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Mam-oulides, Dist. Atty., Robert A. Pitre, Jr., Stephen M. Little, Asst. Dist. Attys., Gret-na, Abbott J. Reeves, Director, Research and Appeals Div., Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

The defendant’s conviction is affirmed. The case is remanded for resentencing because application of the habitual offender statute, La.R.S. 15:529.1, was improper. The subject offense, for which the penalty was sought to be enhanced, was committed before defendant was convicted of the penalty-enhancing offense. However, La.R.S. 15:529.1(A) authorizes only the use of prior convictions in a habitual offender bill.

Accordingly, defendant’s sentence is set aside and the case is remanded for resen-tencing in accordance with law.