Case ID: ga-app_235/html/0876-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McMurray, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A98A2294.
    WILLIAMS v. THE STATE.
    (510 SE2d 848)
   McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals the trial court’s sentencing him as a recidivist under OCGA § 17-10-7 because there was no admissible evidence in the record to support the trial court’s finding that he had “six (6) prior felony convictions, imposed on three (3) separate occasions.” In its brief, the State agrees that “[t]he sentence as imposed is not supported by the record.” Held:

Decided January 5, 1999.

June E. Fogle, for appellant.

Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, Kimberly Rowden, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

The trial court erred in considering the prior convictions which were not supported by admissible evidence when sentencing the defendant as a recidivist. Ramsey v. State, 218 Ga. App. 692, 693 (4) (462 SE2d 806). The judgment as to defendant’s sentence is vacated, and the case is remanded to the trial court for resentencing.

Judgment vacated as to sentence and case remanded.

Blackburn and Eldridge, JJ., concur.