State v. Davis

Defendant was charged by bill of information with two counts of armed robbery in violation of La.R.S. 14:64. After trial by jury beginning on June 23, 1981, he was found guilty as charged on each count. On August 3, 1981, the trial court sentenced him to fifty (50) years’ imprisonment at hard labor for each offense, the sentences to run consecutively. Defendant has now appealed his convictions and sentences to this Court urging that the consecutive penalties imposed by the trial court are excessive.

*1247At sentencing on August 3,1981, the trial court stated that defendant had a prior conviction…