Pruitt v. State

Appellant challenges his multiple convictions and sentences resulting from an altercation with a victim and then further altercations with the pursuing police. We affirm.

As to the conviction, he claims that during trial the court erroneously admitted a hearsay statement as an excited utterance. While we agree that the statement was erroneously admitted, we conclude it was harmless.

He also claims that the court erroneously imposed consecutive sentences on two of the counts, arguing the Criminal Punishment Code precludes consecutive sentences for convictions arising out of the same criminal…