Wheat v. State

The petitioner Phillip Michael Wheat was found guilty by a jury in a bifurcated trial of three counts of aggravated robbery and theft of property arising out of the robbery at gunpoint of a pharmacy. He was determined to be an habitual offender with eight prior felony convictions and was sentenced to two consecutive prison terms of forty years on counts I and II of aggravated robbery and concurrent terms of forty years on Count III of aggravated robbery and ten years for theft of property for a total term of eighty years imprisonment. He has now filed a petition for post-conviction relief…