Bell v. State

WHATLEY, Judge.

The appellant, James Bell, challenges Ms convictions and sentences for possession of cocaine and sale of cocaine. We find merit only in Ms contention that the trial court erred in imposing consecutive habitualized sentences.

Bell was sentenced as a habitual violent felony offender. He correctly argues that *1276the trial court erred in imposing the sentence for possession of cocaine to run consecutively to the sentence for sale of cocaine. A trial court may not both enhance a defendant’s sentence as a habitual offender and order each of the enhanced habitual offender sentences for…