Pennington v. State.‎(143)‎

|, This case is one of three companion cases in which appellant Frederick Pennington, Jr., has appealed from sentencing orders entered after the original judgments of conviction were remanded for resentencing. In all three cases, appellant contends that the circuit court lacked the authority to order that the sentences in one of the cases run consecutively to the sentences in the other two cases. We affirm.

In 1978, appellant pled guilty to one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated robbery in Pulaski County Circuit Court case CR77-1933. He was sentenced to life imprisonment…