State v. Smith

OPINION

JONES, Judge.

The defendant, Donald Eugene Smith, was convicted of murder second degree by the use of a firearm. The trial court sentenced the defendant to confinement in the Department of Correction for a period of twenty (20) years as a Range I standard offender. The trial court sentenced the defendant to confinement for a period of fifteen (15) years for the offense of murder second degree; and he enhanced this sentence by ordering that the defendant serve an additional five (5) years, consecutive to the sentence for murder second degree, because the defendant employed a firearm in…