Stanton Wayne Yates v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice Moseley

Stanton Wayne Yates was charged with five counts of engaging in organized criminal activity (a first degree felony) with the underlying offense of burglary of a habitation (a second degree felony). 1 In a single trial, Yates was found guilty by a jury of four counts of engaging in organized criminal activity and one count of burglary of a habitation. He was sentenced to concurrent life sentences for each of the first degree felonies, and he received a concurrent twenty-year sentence and a $10,000.00 fine as punishment for the second degree felony. Yates has…