State v. Housden

WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon an appeal by Raymond Housden from an April 24, 1989, order entered by the Jefferson County Circuit Court wherein the court sentenced the appellant to life imprisonment on a burglary charge based upon a jury conviction of recidivism pursuant to the West Virginia Habitual Criminal Statute, W.Va.Code §§ 61-11-18 to -19 (1943) (hereinafter referred to as Habitual Criminal Statute). The lower court also sentenced the appellant to an indeterminate term of one to ten years for his grand larceny conviction, and ordered that these sentences run…