Court Opinion

ID: 9710219
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:04:34.575452+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:55.174808
License: Public Domain

HENDERSON, Justice
(specially concurring).
I concur in this affirmance. The question of proportionality is not at issue. Cruel and inhumane punishment is not urged. This sentence was within statutory limits and the conscience of this Court should not be shocked. There is no constitutionally infirm sentence.
Furthermore, the trial court did not bear down on the “lying under oath” concept— as if that was entirely controlling; here, the trial court’s sentence was based on many considerations, not just alleged perjured testimony. Contained in the presen-tence investigation report was a showing of fourteen past criminal charges over a period of approximately five years. Several convictions ensued, including a felony conviction for escape.