State v. Shaw

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

The defendant, Howard Shaw, has appealed from a sentence imposed against him after he had entered a plea of guilty to a charge of first-degree robbery. Before sentence was pronounced the state served written notice of its intention to invoice the provisions of the Habitual Criminal Act against the defendant, and accordingly he was sentenced as a second offender for a term of not less than twenty nor more than forty-two years.

Both at the time of entering his plea of guilty and at the time sentence was pronounced, the defendant was…