Legal Opinion

State v. Jones

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided December 5, 2012No. Nos. 12-624, 12-625Published

1Opinion of the Court

GENOVESE, Judge.

bln this criminal case, Defendant, Michael Wayne Jones, appeals his habitual offender adjudication and sentence. He alleges insufficiency of the evidence relative to his two predicate burglary offenses and excessive habitual offender sentence. For the following reasons, we affirm Defendant’s convictions on the predicate burglary offenses and vacate his habitual offender sentence due to error patent.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On August 20, 2009, Dr. Stephen Goo-deaux arrived at his veterinary clinic in Scott, Louisiana, and discovered that someone had broken a window near the…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. United States v. BatchelderSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. State v. MussallSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1988
  4. State v. SilmanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1995
  5. State v. MacOnSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2007

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