2014 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 6 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
CHAPTER 10 - SENTENCING
ARTICLE 2 - HABITUAL CRIMINALS
6-10-201. "Habitual criminal" defined; penalties.


WY Stat § 6-10-201 (2014) What's This?

6-10-201. "Habitual criminal" defined; penalties.

(a) A person is an habitual criminal if:

(i) He is convicted of a violent felony; and

(ii) He has been convicted of a felony on two (2) or more previous charges separately brought and tried which arose out of separate occurrences in this state or elsewhere.

(b) An habitual criminal shall be punished by imprisonment for:

(i) Not less than ten (10) years nor more than fifty (50) years, if he has two (2) previous convictions;

(ii) Life, if he has three (3) or more previous convictions for offenses committed after the person reached the age of eighteen (18) years of age.

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