STATE v. GARCIA

No. 12730.

620 P.2d 1271 (1980)

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roldon GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

December 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Bigelow, Chief Public Defender, Martha A. Daly, Appellate Defender, Santa Fe, for defendant-appellant.

Jeff Bingaman, Atty. Gen., Michael E. Sanchez, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for plaintiff-appellee.


OPINION

EASLEY, Senior Justice.

Garcia appeals from his sentence of life imprisonment, imposed pursuant to our habitual offender statute after trial where Garcia was found to be the same person convicted of the underlying felony, residential burglary, and three prior felonies. We reserve and remand.

In this tortuous evidentiary and procedural briar-patch involving five trial judges and four appeals, we have sorted out four issues: (1) whether N.M...

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