Bruneau v. State

After a plea of guilty, the defendant, Barbara Bruneau, was found guilty of burglary and arson. The court sentenced her to a seven-year indeterminate term for burglary and a ten-year indeterminate term for arson. These sentences were ordered to be served consecutively and consecutive to a manslaughter sentence of eight and one-half years which was imposed three days earlier in another branch of the circuit court for Milwaukee county.

It is the principal contention of Bruneau and the State Public Defender, her counsel on this appeal, that it was beyond the sentencing authority of the circuit…