State v. Wells

STEELMAN, Judge.

Where sufficient evidence was shown that defendant fled the scene of a crime to avoid apprehension, a jury instruction on flight was properly given. Where defendant pled guilty to habitual felon status, the trial court was required to sentence defendant as an habitual felon on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

On 2 May 2007, Venor Webb (Webb) went to visit friends at a mobile home park. Webb had previously lived at the mobile home park in a trailer owned and occupied by Ernestine Cash…