Oney v. State

HORSEY, Justice:

This appeal concerns the construction of our habitual criminal statute, 11 Del.C. § 4214 1 and whether defendant, three times previously convicted of a felony, was properly declared an habitual criminal under § 4214(a) following his fourth felony conviction.

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On January 28, 1981 defendant, Milton J. Oney, Jr., was convicted in a jury trial in Superior Court of three charges of robbery first degree (11 Del.C. § 832) and three charges of possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony (11 Del.C. § 1447). Defendant had a prior criminal record of three felony…