State v. Echols

Sundermann, Judge.

In 1996, defendant-appellant Lonnie Curtis Echols was indicted on six counts of robbery, six counts of aggravated robbery, and two counts of kidnapping, all of which were accompanied by a specification of a prior first-degree aggravated felony conviction. Following his first jury trial, Echols was found guilty of all counts. For the purposes of sentencing, the trial court merged the robbery counts with the aggravated robbery counts and sentenced Echols to ten to twenty-five years on each aggravated robbery count and on the two kidnapping counts, with the sentences to run…