Court Opinion

ID: 9551507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:54:35.078747+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:24:03.121842
License: Public Domain

SUTIN, Judge, (specially concurring). The trial court intended to and did instruct the jury on only three separate felonies on three separate dates. The jury found defendant guilty of three separate felonies and sentenced the defendant upon enhancement of the third felony pursuant to § 40A-29-5(B). The majority opinion if ruled to be enhancement of a fourth or fifth felony, the trial court was mandated by § 40A-29-5(C) to sentence defendant “to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for the term of his natural life.” This case should, then be remanded for resentencing.