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>On the evening of December 31,2004, the defendant hid in the storeroom of the Family Dollar Store in Lafayette,Louisiana,as the store employees closed up the store and prepared the cash deposits. When the victim entered the storeroom with the cash, the defendant viciously attacked him and fled with the money. The defendant was apprehended shortly thereafter with the money in his possession. The victim suffered severe and permanent injury from the attack which occurred during the robbery.
>Andris Sinegal, Jr. was originally charged by bill of information with attempted first degree murder and armed robbery. However, on January 29, 2008 the bill of information was amended to one count of second degree robbery, a violation of La.R.S. 14:64.4, and one count of illegal possession of stolen things over five hundred dollars, a violation of La.R.S. 14:69. Trial commenced on January 29, 2008and,on January30, 2008, the jury found the defendant guilty as charged.
>Sentencing was held on June 16, 2008, and the defendant was sentenced to thirty years at hard labor for the offense of second degree robbery and eight years at hard labor for the offense of illegal possession of stolen things over five hundred dollars.
>The sentences were ordered to be served concurrently.The defendant has perfected a timely appeal. He raised only one assignment of error, that he was subjected to double jeopardy when he was convicted of second degree robbery and possession of illegal things over five hundred dollars, which was the money that was taken during the course of the robbery.