Wright v. State

THOMAS, Chief Justice.

The only question presented in this appeal is whether the district court should have granted a motion for reduction of sentence premised upon a claim that the appellant, Richard Lynn Wright, was sentenced under the wrong statute. Wright’s position in the district court was not definitive, and his request for relief has been enhanced by his argument in his brief. Wright claims that although he was convicted of the crime of burglary he should have been sentenced only for a larceny which was incidental to the burglary. He argues that because the statutory penalty for the…