State v. Anderson

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Defendant, Lee Iver Anderson, appeals his life sentence for first degree burglary and lesser prison terms for burglary and three counts of aggravated assault. He also challenges his habitual offender conviction. We affirm all the convictions and find these sentences neither cruel nor unusual.

FACTS

[¶ 2.] Defendant performed occasional plumbing work on rental properties owned by Elwood Anderson, a retired farmer and insurance agent from Sioux Falls.1 Elwood sometimes paid defendant in cash from a billfold typically containing two or three hundred dollars in bills. On…