Legal Opinion

Sims v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided April 30, 1999No. CR-98-0081PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COBB, Judge.

Harie Vertrain Sims, Jr., entered a guilty plea to the offense of promoting prison contraband in the first degree. Pursuant to an agreement reached between Sims and the State, the trial court orally sentenced Sims in open court to 15 years in prison. The sentence was split and he was ordered to serve one year, and the remainder of the sentence on probation. This sentence was to run consecutively to a sentence Sims was then serving. R. 5. The trial court’s written sentencing order reflects that Sims was sentenced as a habitual felony offender to 15 years in prison, that sentence to…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Casey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1998
  2. Hudson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
  3. L.K.B. v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1997

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2000
  2. Hinkle v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2016
  3. Woolf v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2014

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