State v. Lee

The thrust of this appeal is the claim of the defendant that after having been convicted of three separate felonies committed during a reign of terror, the court should have ordered his three separate sentences to run concurrently instead of consecutively.

Defendant concedes that such matter is one for the exercise of sound discretion by the trial court, but contends that the court abused such discretion under the very legislation that invests it therewith, i.e., U.C.A., *4441953, § 76-3-401. Defendant argues that the court did not apply the guidelines of subsection (2) thereof, which reads as…