Title: State v. Arthaloney

State: nebraska

Issuer: Nebraska Supreme Court

Document:

433 N.W.2d 545 (1989) 230 Neb. 819 STATE of Nebraska, Appellee, v. Lonnie R. ARTHALONEY, Appellant. No. 88-645. Supreme Court of Nebraska. January 6, 1989. *546 Thomas M. Kenney, Douglas County Public Defender, and Timothy P. Burns, Omaha, for appellant. No appearance for appellee. HASTINGS, C.J., and BOSLAUGH, WHITE, CAPORALE, SHANAHAN, GRANT, and FAHRNBRUCH, JJ. PER CURIAM. On March 14, 1988, defendant was charged by information in Douglas County, Nebraska, with two counts of robbery and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. The robberies allegedly took place on June 7 and 11, 1986, in Omaha. Defendant pled not guilty on March 24, 1988. On May 20, 1988, defendant filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that defendant had not been brought to trial within 180 days after the prosecutor had received a certificate from the warden of the Iowa state penitentiary showing defendant was imprisoned there and that detainers from Nebraska were on file there against defendant, and after defendant requested disposition of all untried charges against him, pursuant to the provisions of Neb.Rev.Stat. § 29-3805 (Reissue 1985). This motion was overruled. The State then dismissed the two charges against defendant for use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and defendant waived a jury trial on the two counts of robbery. A trial was held to the court. At the conclusion of the trial, counsel argued the case. Defendant's counsel concluded his argument by stating, The following colloquy occurred: Following this ill-advised advice, the court found that "Mr. Arthaloney is not guilty as to Count I. It is the finding of the Court that the defendant is guilty of being an accessory to the felony of robbery under Count III pursuant to 28-204." *547 On July 8, 1988, the court sentenced defendant "to be confined in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex for a term of 18 months. This sentence is to be served concurrently with any sentence you are presently serving." Later on the same day, the judgment and sentence were entered on the court's journal with the concluding sentence, "Sentence consecutive to any sentence presently being served." On July 21, 1988, with the defendant present in court, with counsel, the trial court held a conference. The court stated that it had mistakenly said in open court that the sentence was to be concurrent, when in actuality the court intended to make the sentence consecutive, and had so entered the sentencing order in the court's journal. Defendant timely appealed to this court, assigning as error the actions of the trial court: (1) in not sustaining defendant's motion to dismiss because he was not brought to trial within 180 days under the interstate Agreement on Detainers, Neb.Rev.Stat. § 29-759 (Reissue 1985); (2) "in finding the Defendant guilty of being an accessory to a felony under Count III, Robbery, of the information because being an accessory to a felony is not a lesser-included offense of robbery"; and (3) in changing defendant's sentence from concurrent to consecutive. After the filing of defendant's brief in this court, the State filed a motion for this court "to enter an order sustaining appellant's Assignment of Error 2 and 3 as set forth in the Brief of the Appellant ... and remand this case to the District Court for further proceedings." We grant appellee's motion and dispose of this case as if submitted to the court on defendant's appeal and the State's confession of error. Neb.Rev.Stat. § 28-324 (Reissue 1985) provides in part: Neb.Rev.Stat. § 28-204 (Reissue 1985) provides in part: We held in State v. White, 217 Neb. 783, 785-86, 351 N.W.2d 83, 85-86 (1984): (Emphasis in original.) See, also, State v. Jackson, 225 Neb. 843, 408 N.W.2d 720 (1987). *548 The crime of being an accessory to a felony, as defined in § 28-204, is not a lesser-included offense of the crime of robbery. The defendant's second assignment of error is upheld, and the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to dismiss. It is unnecessary to consider the other errors assigned. REVERSED AND REMANDED WITH DIRECTIONS TO DISMISS.