Hinton v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

A jury found defendant (appellant) guilty of robbery in the first degree as charged in Count Two of a two-count indictment. In conducting the sentence hearing, after due *1118notice had been given that the State would proceed under the Habitual Felony Offenders Act, it was shown that defendant had been previously convicted of at least three felonies and the court imposed a sentence to imprisonment for life without parole.

The first count of the indictment charged that defendant “did abduct Holly L. McClelland with the intent to inflict physical injury upon her,…