State v. Dixon

KNOLL, Judge.

This criminal appeal addresses the resen-tencing of the defendant because the original sentence was illegally lenient.

Defendant, Patrick Dixon, was convicted by a jury in 1977 of armed robbery. Defendant, who had several prior felony convictions, was sentenced on August 10,1977, to 99 years at hard labor. At his original sentencing, the sentencing judge failed to note for the record that the sentence was imposed without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence, as statutorily mandated by LSA-R.S. 14:64. His conviction and sentence were affirmed in a per curiam…