Lidy v. State

Boggs, Judge.

A jury found Maurice Lidy III guilty on two counts of felony obstruction and one count each of aggravated battery and criminal trespass. On appeal, Lidy asserts that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his aggravated battery conviction, and that the trial court erred in failing to merge the two obstruction counts for sentencing. We affirm but remand this case for resentencing.

So viewed, the evidence showed that officers arrived at a storm-damaged hotel closed for business but under repair, to find Lidy and another man occupying one of the rooms where the door had been pried…