Lewis v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge.

This is a consolidation of separate appeals Nos. A-15,850 and A-15,852.

Plaintiffs in Error, Ralph Dean Lewis and Johnny Edward Thomas, hereinafter referred to as defendants, as they appeared in the trial court, were jointly tried and convicted before the District Court of Tulsa County, in Case No. CRF-69-1791, on a charge of Second Degree Burglary, After Former Conviction of a Felony. The trial was conducted in a two-stage proceeding, and on January 30, 1970, both defendants were sentenced to serve not less than twenty (20) years nor more than sixty (60) years under the…