Hardison v. Boyd

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• holding that date offense was committed, and not date of conviction for that offense, determines whether offense can be considered toward habitual offender status
• Date of arrest is date to be used for purpose of deciding upon habitual offender status; “Were it otherwise, a defense attorney could thwart the intent of the statute by securing a continuance ... to take an impending conviction outside the ... period provided in the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).