State v. Stewart

HAYS, Justice.

Appellant Alexander Stewart was convicted of armed robbery (A.R.S. § 13-1904), and the jury found that he had been previously convicted of four felonies. (One conviction was for escape, and the remaining three were crimes of assault while armed.) Appellant was sentenced to thirty-five years imprisonment, to run consecutively to the term of imprisonment he must serve in New Jersey. The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction. State v. Stewart, 139 Ariz. 66, 676 P.2d 1124 (1983). We granted the state’s petition for review and vacate the opinion of the court of…