Sweatt v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Michael Sweatt appeals from convictions for possession of a handgun by a serious violent felon and burglary. He argues that the trial court erred by enhancing his sentence for burglary under the general habitual offender statute based on the same prior felony conviction supporting the serious violent felon count. While we conclude that the enhancements themselves were proper, it nonetheless constituted error to order Sweatt’s sentences to run consecutively, creating a double enhancement similar to the one we disapproved in Mills v. State.

Facts and Procedural History

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