Ross v. Commonwealth

GANT, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of 15 counts of robbery in the first degree and one count of burglary in the first degree, his sentence on each of the 16 counts being enhanced to 30 years as a persistent felony offender. Three of the sentences were ordered to be served consecutively, for a total of 90 years, and the remainder to be served concurrently. Appellant appeals to us as a matter of right.

Appellant first assigns as error three of the counts which arose from a series of armed robberies which occurred at a Holiday Inn in Jefferson County on May 16, 1983. Several armed men,…