Jose A. Perez-Flores v. State

Jose Alejandro Perez-Flores appeals his convictions and sentences following a jury trial for attempted manslaughter by act with a weapon and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon or causing great bodily harm. We affirm his convictions, but reverse his sentence on the aggravated battery and remand for further proceedings.

Perez-Flores argues, and the State properly concedes, the trial court improperly reclassified Perez-Flores’s conviction for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon or causing great bodily harm from a second-degree felony to a first-degree felony, and thereafter, imposed a…