Weaver v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Appellant Steven P. Weaver pled guilty to murder in Hancock Cireuit Court. The trial court sentenced him to sixty years in prison and ordered the sentence to run consecutively to sentences previously imposed for unrelated offenses in other counties. 1

Weaver subsequently filed a motion to correct erroneous sentence. Citing a provision of the criminal code governing consecutive and concurrent sentences, Ind.Code Ann. § 35-50-1-2 (West Supp.1993), he claimed that the trial court did not have authority to order consecutive sentences. The trial court denied the motion. We…