State v. Lewis

FRED W. JONES, Jr., Judge.

Defendant Lewis was charged with one count of aggravated burglary and was exposed to 30 years at hard labor. Pursuant to a plea bargain in which it was understood that defendant would be sentenced to no more than twelve years at hard labor he pled guilty as charged. He was sentenced to seven years at hard labor, and appealed. Defendant’s only assignment of error is the alleged excessiveness of his sentence. We affirm.

In November, 1988 the defendant entered a house in West Monroe through an unlocked window. The owner of the house, a 70 year-old woman who lived alone,…