Williams v. State

BOYER, Chief Judge.

After a jury trial, appellant was found guilty and sentenced to three consecutive 15-year sentences. The issue raised in this appeal from the denial of appellant’s motion to vacate and set aside judgment and sentence is whether separate sentences may be imposed for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, on the one hand, and shooting within an occupied building and assault with intent to commit murder, on the other hand.

Appellant was tried for offenses emanating from two separate incidents occurring on August 26, 1972. Regarding the first incident, the evidence…