Kuchel v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was charged with forty-five counts, all stemming from sexually related attacks on several women. The State also alleged that appellant was an habitual offender. The sentences ranged from one hundred eighty (180) days to fifty (50) years on twenty of the forty-five charges. It was further ordered by the trial court that the sentences imposed on the counts involving separate victims "shall run and be served consecutively." We reverse.

Following the termination of the case-in-chief, the habitual offender verdict forms were erroneously sent to the jury room.…