Pate v. State

BOYER, Chief Judge.

Appellant, charged by information with two counts of robbery and .two counts of aggravated assault, was tried by a jury and found guilty as charged. He received sentences of 20 years imprisonment on each robbery count and 10 years imprisonment on each aggravated assault count, all sentences to be served concurrently. His sole argument on appeal is that the sentences imposed on the aggravated assault charges should be vacated as violative of the “single transaction rule”.

On April 29, 1975, Mark Scalf and Mark Bourne, a pair of vacationing senior high school students, were…