Averett v. State

PATTERSON, Judge.

The appellant, Ronald Averett, appeals his conviction for theft of property in the first degree, § 13A-8-3, Code of Alabama 1975, and his resulting sentence, as a habitual offender, of life imprisonment.

Averett asserts, as one of the four issues raised on appeal, that he was improperly sentenced as a habitual offender with at least three prior felony convictions because the following three convictions upon which the trial court relied to enhance are based on nolo contendere pleas: (1) burglary and grand theft, 88-850CFA5B, Escambia County, Florida; (2) burglary, 88-851CFA5B,…