Lang v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

*586A circuit court jury convicted James Ellis Lang of first-degree robbery and fixed punishment for that crime at twenty years' imprisonment. Lang then pleaded guilty to the additional charge of being a first-degree persistent felony offender (PFO), and the same jury fixed an enhanced penalty of thirty years' imprisonment. Lang now appeals the resulting judgment as a matter of right,1 raising three issues for our review.

We reject Lang's contention that the trial court erred by failing to dismiss the indictment for the Commonwealth's alleged violation…