State Ex Rel. Alpine v. Butler

549 So.2d 859 (1989)

STATE ex rel. Joseph ALPINE

v.

Robert H. BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

No. 88-KH-1073.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 6, 1989.

Before DIXON, C.J., and MARCUS, DENNIS, WATSON and COLE, JJ.

Granted in part; denied in part. Relator's adjudications and sentences resulting from the state's multiple offender bill are vacated. Because the multiple offender bill does not set forth with sufficient clarity which of relator's September 30, 1978 convictions constitutes the predicate offense upon which the multiple bill rests, and because relator can be sentenced as a…